#amen

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#better #building #church #decoration #god

But the building's identity resided in the ornament. ↗

— Louis Sullivan

#building #identity #ornament #resided

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#between #bush #constitutional #constitutional amendment #god

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#agent #artist #director #estate #him

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aesthetic #allows #doctrine #doubt #doubts

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. ↗

— Allen Tate

#because #cannot #even #failure #fictitious

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #day #even #good #good people

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself! ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#comparison #devout #every #exalted #exercise

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#direct #mislead #must #parliament #possible

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#behave #calm #composed #fascinating #father