Churches
Quotes on Churches
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet
When churchyards are consecrated I find it awfully difficult to imagine that the Holy Spirit is operating only along the dotted line on the part of the plan coloured pink.
Canon R. L Hussey (b. 1899) British clergyman
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet
