quotes about Temples
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The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.
-- Albert PikeSource : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
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Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
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The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.
-- Alex Grey -
All nature is the temple; earth the altar.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
-- April WinchellSource : KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, October 8, 2000.
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THE DEMOLITION OF A TEMPLE IS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME, as it cannot walk away from its place.
-- AurangzebSource : "Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud". Book by Arun Shourie, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
-- Ben Nicholson -
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All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
-- Bill Vaughan -
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
-- Bill Vaughan -
Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson -
Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
-- Brennan Manning -
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We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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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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The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.
-- Charles Taze Russell -
Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.
-- David E. Sorensen -
Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
-- Dean Koontz -
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Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples.
-- Delwar Hossain Sayeedi -
I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.
-- Francois Mauriac -
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So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.
-- Frank Lebby StantonSource : Frank Lebby Stanton (1898). “Comes One with a Song”
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
-- Gabourey Sidibe -
You are never lost when you can see the temple.
-- Gary E. Stevenson -
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
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Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
-- Giannina BraschiSource : "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.
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When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay -
I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.
-- Hugh B. Brown -
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
-- Ivan TurgenevSource : J.B. MacKinnon (2013). “The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
-- J. B. MacKinnon -
For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.
-- Jacques de MolaySource : "The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay". Book by Alain Demurger, 2009.
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No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.
-- James E. TalmageSource : James E. Talmage (2015). “The House of the Lord”, p.102, Latter-day Strengths
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The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.
-- Jane Addams -
A Libyan rebel has admitted to killing Moammar Gadhafi. He said he shot Gadhafi twice in the temple, to which Michele Bachmann said, "I didn't even know the guy was Jewish.
-- Jay Leno -
I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.
-- Jean WebsterSource : Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.86, Penguin
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Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation
-- Jeremy Bentham -
Too many temples where we could worship the beast.
-- Jethro Tull -
He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.
-- Joe Hill -
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Finally it may be said that the temple endowment is not secret. All who meet the requirements for entrance to the temple may enjoy it.
-- John Andreas Widtsoe -
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
-- John Milton -
We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.
-- Jose Mujica -
If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
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Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud.
-- Julius StreicherSource : "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.
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For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
-- Julius WellhausenSource : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.17, Cambridge University Press
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From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.
-- Julius WellhausenSource : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.20, Cambridge University Press
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
-- Khalil Gibran -
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The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
-- L. Lionel Kendrick -
The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.
-- L. Lionel Kendrick -
It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
-- L. Lionel Kendrick -
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
-- Langston Hughes -
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I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.
-- Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason
-- Marcus Cornelius Fronto -
When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
Darkdoom? Darkdoom did this?" Nero was visibly surprised. He placed a hand on his forehead, rubbing his temples. "Oh, why is it always the bald ones?
-- Mark WaldenSource : Mark Walden (2011). “H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute of Villainous Education)”, p.260, A&C Black
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Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.
-- Mata Amritanandamayi -
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.
-- Mata Hari -
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
-- Matsuo Basho -
Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.
-- Matthew Henry -
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Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.
-- Matthew SimpsonSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 34, 1895.
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Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.†Blam.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
-- Max PlanckSource : Where is Science Going? epilogue (1932)
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Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.
-- Maya Angelou -
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There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.
-- Merle Haggard -
I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
-- Meryl Streep -
What is this eternity to me without you?What is the infinity of my domains?Empty ringing words,A spacious temple - without a divinity!
-- Mikhail LermontovSource : "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.
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Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.
-- Mikhail NaimySource : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.76, Duncan Baird Publishers
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
-- Milan Kundera -
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.
-- Milarepa -
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
-- Milton S. Eisenhower -
You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
-- Muhammad Ali JinnahSource : Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Address to the Constituent Assembly, August 11, 1947.
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Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.
-- N. T. Wright -
Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.
-- Nancy HaleSource : Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume
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Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.
-- Neill F. Marriott -
By the nourishing spirit of the temple we can learn the reality, the power and the hope of the Savior's Atonement in our personal life.
-- Neill F. Marriott -
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America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.
-- Nick Clooney -
In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
-- NovalisSource : Novalis (1995). “Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson ("B.V.") of Hymns to night”
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If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
-- Paul the Apostle -
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
-- Philip James BaileySource : Philip James Bailey, “Festus - XXXIV”
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The temples perish, but the God still lives.
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Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack
-- Pope Paul VI -
I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.
-- Quentin L. Cook -
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God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
-- Rajneesh -
Without Jesus they were the great priests of the temple; with Jesus suddenly they were nobodies. In the presence of Jesus there was God himself and all the priests felt their glory had been taken away.
-- Rajneesh -
When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.
-- Richard G. Scott -
I have a suggestion: When a temple is conveniently nearby, small things may interrupt your plans to go to the temple. Set specific goals, considering your circumstances, of when you can and will participate in temple ordinances. Then do not allow anything to interfere with that plan.
-- Richard G. Scott -