The Builders Quotes

“There came a day when the Masons, laying aside their stones, became workmen of another kind, not less builders than before, but using truths for tools and dramas for designs, uplifting such a temple as Watts dreamed of decorating with his visions of the august allegory of the evolution of man.”
― Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry

“Why did they continue to enter Lodges until they had the rule of them? There must have been something more in their association, for they had their clubs, societies, and learned fellowships.”
― Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry

“Upon that basis the first Grand Lodge was founded, and upon that basis Masonry rests today-holding that a unity of spirit is better than a uniformity of opinion, and that beyond the great and simple "religion in which all men agree" no dogma is worth a breach of charity”
― Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry

“the heavens.[33] If further proof were needed,”
― Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders (Annotated): A Story and Study of Masonry