quotes about Shrines
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
-- Abraham Joshua HeschelSource : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan
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The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
-- Alfred de Musset -
I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.
-- Antoine Fuqua -
Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.
-- Bob SegerSource : Song: In Your Time, Album: Greatest Hits
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I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
-- Carolyn Wells -
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
-- Charles Alexander EastmanSource : Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.160, World Wisdom, Inc
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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
-- Charles BuckSource : Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.164
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Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.
-- Charlotte Armstrong -
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I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
-- Edwin Markham -
Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.
-- George WeigelSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.
-- Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix -
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Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz
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My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.
-- Julian Clary -
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The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
-- Keith Preston -
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.
-- Lewis Mumford -
The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.
-- Margaret Atwood -
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.
-- Montgomery SchuylerSource : Montgomery Schuyler (1892). “American Architecture”
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The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.
-- Morihei Ueshiba -
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
-- Nicholson BakerSource : Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
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Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.
-- Paul Morphy -
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We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.
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For I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.
-- Saraha -
It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.
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The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.
-- Wallace Thurman -
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How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
-- Walter Gropius -
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.
-- Walter Russell -
We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.
-- Douglas Southall Freeman