Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face"
Holy Places quotes
Holy Places
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Margaret Walker
Poet
"When and where will another come to take your holy place? Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?"
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Why must holy places be dark places?"
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'"
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes"
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"The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’"
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"Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place."
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