St Peter Basilica Quotes

#1. The sword was called Caledfwlch, which means 'hard lightning' though Igraine prefers to call it Excalibur

Bernard Cornwell

#2. Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism ... [A Catholic American soldier's reaction to seeing St. Peter's Basilica during WWII.]

James Carroll

#3. Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks

Natasha Tsakos

#4. Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Martin Luther

#5. Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.

Rumi

#6. Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne "Holy Roman Emperor" in the Basilica of St. Peter. The congregation acclaimed him as "Augustus," and Leo prostrated himself at Charlemagne's feet.

Karen Armstrong

#7. One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

David Mitchell

#8. He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

Colum McCann

#9. But, chiquita, you must understand that while you are here, I expect you to come to me and share your fears. Even if I am the one causing them.

Cherise Sinclair

#10. That was my favorite dagger.
She had a favorite dagger? Seriously? And she thought that I was a freak.

Jennifer Estep

#11. Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.

David Ignatius

#12. Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

Roger Ebert

#13. little things please great minds.

G.K. Chesterton