The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.

...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.

How can secret rooms, rooms that have disappeared, become abodes for an unforgettable past?

So we have these artifacts standing in our stead and showing that we had a very rich tradition that is enviable.

Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.

I've lived here before in days of old I recognise these buildings in my soul I know each winding road and every rise is friendly and familiar to my eyes

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

When you’re in this room, I don’t know how to describe it. It’s soaked in history. It just washes over you. I mean, it’s not even like it’s in the past. You’re in history. You’re in it.

The house was large and deeply lived-in, all the shelves and surfaces stacked with books and boxes, framed pictures, old greeting cards set up like tent cities...Every single surface told a story. A long one. With digressions.

history, rival of time, storehouse of deeds, witness for the past, example and counsel for the present, and warning for the future.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

It's a building with a curious, difficult history that is inexorably linked to the history of Berlin, [he said] That's very potent. You can't make a show here without some reference to all of that. And it certainly makes a show here so much more interesting.

Buildings are important expressions of our feelings and intentions and provide a common space where we are at home and comfortable, and yet speak of our future. This is especially so with churches, which are extensions of our homes. The sacramental principle is at the heart of Catholicism, and no less so in its buildings.

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.