Quotes & Sayings About Building Castles In The Air

Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we have the means for becoming altogether holy in our walk and conversation. What dungeon is there that can shut us out from this? Only let us use the present location and means faithfully and truly, taking them from God's hand, and we shall find him able to free us from all that is really a hindrance. Let us each one desire to be a saint in his own place and calling, instead of building 'castles in the air' of future holiness. — Gerhard Tersteegen

No tribute is laid on castles in the air. — Charles Churchill

Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare. — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take ti too seriously. — Anne Frank

When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground. — Edward Gibbon

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. — Josh Billings

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. — William Rounseville Alger

I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse. — Maureen Child

Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position. — Alexandre Dumas