Famous quotes containing the words church and/or architecture:
“The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavern is where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)