"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy - meditate on these things." - Philippians 4:8

"You have shed much blood and made great wars; you shall not build a house for My name, because you have shed much blood on the Earth in My sight." - 1 Chronicles 22:8

"It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp the ineffable greatness of God with the human mind." - Saint Basil the Great

"Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," and the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins." - Saint Silouan the Athonite

“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome... Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” - John Ruskin

"When we build... let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think... that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our fathers did for us!'" - John Ruskin

"Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped." - Sir William Henry Bragg

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." - Socrates

"It has always been my wish to live honourably, and after my death to leave to those who come after me my memory in good works." - Alfred the Great, King of the English

"Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men." - Alfred the Great, King of the English

"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C.S. Lewis

"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker." - C. S. Lewis