"It
is only through symbols of beauty that our poor spirits can raise themselves
from temporal things to eternal things." --Abbé Suger
As we have seen, Suger's new way of constructing the walls of the church allowed them to be much taller and to have windows. This completely changed the emotional atmosphere one felt inside the church. When entering the building, churchgoers almost automatically turned their faces upward. This act symbolized the Medieval attitude that worship meant rejecting the worldliness around oneself and contemplating spiritual things instead.