Quotes about Walls
Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.
— Frank Herbert
We construct walls when we are hurt to safeguard our hearts and prevent any future wounds. We become selective, denying entry to all we fear will hurt us. We filter out anyone we think owes us something. We withhold access until these people have paid their debts in full. We open our lives only to those we believe are on our side.
— John Bevere
One advice I give: Beware of Antichrist; for, unhappily, a love of walls has seized you; unhappily, the Church of God which you venerate exists in houses and buildings; unhappily, under these you find the name of peace. Is it doubtful that in these Antichrist will have his seat?
— John Calvin
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
— DH Lawrence
Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.
— Rick Warren
There was indeed a " frightful lot" of books. The four walls of the library were plastered with them from floor to ceiling, save only where the door and the two windows insisted on living their own life, even though an illiterate one.
— AA Milne
The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.
— Joyce Meyer
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
— Mother Angelica
Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in
— Ronald Reagan
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
— William Goldman