Edifice Quotes

“May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed...”

“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.”

“The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.”

“Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.”

“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”

“All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.”

“To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.”

“His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.”

“God designed u to fit an architectural edifice. Discover your real self”