House Of God Quotes:

Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.

- Rumi

topic: Love Is, House, House Of God

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

- Samuel Shem

topic: Strong, Numbers, Body, Strong Arms, Fourteen

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

- Samuel Shem

source: Samuel Shem (2010). “The House of God”, p.152, Penguin

topic: Firsts, Pulse, Procedures, Cardiac, Cardiac Arrest

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Inspirational, Holiday, Angel, House Of God

The world can be a challenging and difficult place in which to live. We are often surrounded by that which would drag us down. As you and I go to the holy houses of God, as we remember the covenants we make within, we will be more able to bear every trial and to overcome each temptation. In this sacred sanctuary we will find peace; we will be renewed and fortified.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: House, Challenges, Temptation, House Of God

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

- Samuel Shem

source: Samuel Shem (2010). “The House of God”, p.311, Penguin

topic: Care, Medical, Delivery, House Of God

The patient is the one with the disease

- Samuel Shem

source: "The House of God". Book by Samuel Shem, September 7, 2010.

topic: Disease, Patient, House Of God

When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

- Mr. T

topic: Heart, House, Gold, Heart Of Gold, House Of God

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Inspirational, House, Body, House Of God

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Hate, Compassion, Ethnicity, House Of God

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

- John Ortberg

source: John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: God, Jobs, Vacation, Cubicles, House Of God

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

- Rachel Jackson

topic: House, Political, Palaces, House Of God

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

topic: God, House, Church, House Of God

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Marriage, Home, House, House Of God

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

- Julius Wellhausen

source: Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

topic: House, Generations, Stones, Jacob, Tithe

As a result of the sacred ordinances performed in the holy house of God, no light need be permanently extinguished, no voice permanently stilled, no place in our heart permanently left vacant.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Heart, Voice, Light, Ordinances, House Of God

In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

source: Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

topic: Israel, House, Majesty, Testament, House Of God

With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Eye, Space, House, Hubble, House Of God

The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.

- Austin Phelps

source: Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”

topic: Intelligent, Simple, House, House Of God

Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth The Sabbath resting comes, Gathering the sons of toil and care Back to their peaceful homes; And, like a portal to the skies, Opens the House of God, Where all who seek may come and learn The way the Saviour trod. But holier to the wanderer seems The Sabbath on the deep, When on, and on, in ceaseless course, The toiling bark must keep, And not a trace of man appears Amid the wilderness Of waters--then it comes like dove Direct from heaven to bless.

- Sarah Josepha Hale

topic: Home, Son, Men, Peaceful Home, Toiling

No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must be strictly monitored by its owner to prevent lapses into health-threatening behaviors as identified by risk discourse. For those with the socioeconomic resources to indulge in risk modification, this discourse may supply the advantages of a new religion; for others, this discourse has the potential to create anxiety and guilt, to promote hopelessness and fear of the future.

- Deborah Lupton

topic: Anxiety, House, Risk, Modification, Fear Of The Future

The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

- Pio of Pietrelcina

topic: Men, House, Church, Shorts, Trousers

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.

- Vikram Seth

topic: Prayer, Moving, Iron, House Of God

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Faith, Real, Book, Corridors, House Of God

Some of you may ask, ?Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God has enjoined upon the people, that he will excuse them from obeying?' Not one, no matter how trifling or small in our own estimation. No matter if we esteem them non-essential, or least or last of all the commandments of the house of God, we are under obligation to observe them.

- Brigham Young

topic: People, House, May, House Of God

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

- Johnny Cash

topic: Mean, Ideas, People, Stagnant, Challenging Status Quo

When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message.

- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

source: "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". www.red-lines.co.uk. May 1997.

topic: House, Admitting, Sitting, Medina, House Of God

They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed up any thing lascivious or impure; as also all secular actions; vain and therefore profane conversations, all walking about, noise, and clamour, that so the house of God may be seen to be, and may be called, truly a house of prayer.

- Pope Pius IV

topic: Prayer, House, Singing, Clamour, House Of God

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938)

topic: Feet, Snow, House, Masai, Kilimanjaro

If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Dark, House, Sun, House Of God