For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. — Marc Chagall
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. — Mimi Sheraton
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us. — Marge Piercy
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. — Dale Chihuly
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. — Man Ray
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. — Robert McAfee Brown
Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it? — Pete Doherty
It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color. — Maxfield Parrish
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. — Adrienne Clarkson
Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed. — Louis Comfort Tiffany
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York
Short Stained Glass Quotes
Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me. — Yohji Yamamoto
Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table. — Ingrid Trobisch
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand — Andrew Solomon
Moonlight is sculpture. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Putting the gold leaf on the back of a Buddha statue. — Thai Proverbs
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. — Saul Leiter
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived. — Hildegard of Bingen
This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural. — Erich Segal
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. — Henry James
Stained Glass Image Quotes
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful that you have a glass, and there is something in it.
Stained Glass Windows Quotes
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti. — Tony Campolo
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board. — A. S. Byatt
God, who foresaw your tribulation has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily. — Mike Murdock
The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows. — Jon Foreman
Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture. — Maggie Stiefvater
Spilling a glass of wine is the adult equivalent of letting of go a balloon.
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. — Anne Lamott
Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons. — Chic Murray
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday? — Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses. — Edith Piaf
I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin. — Mitt Romney
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. — P. J. Harvey
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. — Sharon Tate
I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them. — Frank Laubach
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams. — Ann Landers
When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion. — Diane Ackerman
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stained glass enabled the modern world. — Kiki Smith
At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.' — Michael Persinger
They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation? — Ted Nugent
God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed. — Johnny Cash
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. — Michael Shermer
The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities. — Martin Lindstrom
If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. — Sylvia Plath
The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. — John Corry
Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying. — Richard J. Foster
In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass. — Heather Nova
The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century. — Diana Butler Bass
Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon. — Martin Lindstrom
You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings! — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared. — Claudia Gray
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews. — Bill Hybels
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar, artwork, and stained-glass windows. Together they create an environment conducive to worship and contemplation. We are not in church for entertainment, but to worship. — Dave Brubeck
I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this. — Feist
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass
Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass. — Allen Tate
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy. — Joan Baez
My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE. — Anthony De Mello
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass. — John Fowles
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together and they would not trust or want to listen to one another. But each is a piece of a stained-glass whole, without which I wouldn’t make sense to myself or to the world outside. — Pico Iyer
I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships. — Maureen Johnson
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out. — Kurt Vonnegut
A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. — Saul Williams
The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror. — Anais Nin
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