Top 100 Quotes About Temples
#1. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
April Winchell
#3. To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#4. Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#5. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.
Fred Reed
#6. If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.
George Pendle
#8. It's going to be a while before I can do that, and honestly, I don't know if I'll ever have a flat stomach again, but I don't want to focus on that, it's too depressing." Maggie Temples
S.F.M. Carr
#9. 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 Jinnah
#10. The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
Alexander Pope
#12. The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.
James Madison
#13. I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.
Heber J. Grant
#14. Because we are now "temples" of God, we are now supposed to live differently from the rest of humanity.
Darin Bowler
#15. Veins stood out in her temples as she struggled against her silence. No one noticed. Those words had already been used up, spent, thrown out into the atmosphere to dissipate without effect.
Danielle Ste. Just
#16. Too many temples where we could worship the beast.
Jethro Tull
#17. No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.
Margaret Fuller
#18. Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.
Ayn Rand
#20. I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.
James Norton
#21. The temple was a place of learning for the Savior when He was on the earth; it was very much a part of His life. Temple blessings are available once again in our day.
James E. Faust
#22. The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
William Wordsworth
#23. The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
John Milton
#24. Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.
Diego Della Valle
#25. What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
Andrea Gibson
#26. 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
#27. Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.
David Mitchell
#28. Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.
Robert Genn
#29. Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.
Thomas S. Monson
#30. I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong.
Peter T. King
#31. When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.
Richard G. Scott
#32. Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
Ramana Maharshi
#34. Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.
David E. Sorensen
#36. No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.
George Herbert
#37. I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.
Emo Philips
#38. Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.
Timothy Keller
#39. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
#40. They would erect great temples, and cities built of bone and sinew, and their foulness would spread like a cancer until finally, a hundred years from now, Mother Earth would be theirs.
Chris Wooding
#41. We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
John Milton
#42. Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.
Clint Walker
#43. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'
Ramsay MacMullen
#44. In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.
Milarepa
#45. Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.
Ezra Taft Benson
#46. The words from The Microlight Pilot's Handbook hammered in my temples. 'It is better to be on the ground wishing to God you were in the air, than in the air wishing to God you were on the ground.
Antony Woodward
#47. As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.
Plutarch
#48. Ancient priests and builders must have known about the earth's magnetism and its strange fluctuations. They located their temples, mounds, and pyramids in the dead center of magnetic anomalies. And they laid out long, arrow-straight tracks or "leys" between these magnetic points.
John A. Keel
#49. Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.
William Burkitt
#50. Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.' This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.
Timothy Keller
#51. 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 Simpson
#52. No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
Helen Keller
#53. All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.
John R. Platt
#55. One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples ... We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#57. 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
#58. I swear there must be like some secret code. All mysterious ancient temples must have a minimum of at least seven thousand steps to the front door.
Julie Kagawa
#60. If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.
Joseph Goebbels
#61. What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#62. The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any commendable desire that may exist to build glorious temples in honor of the Deity: and convenience is more consulted than taste, perhaps, in all that relates to ecclesiastical architecture. Nevertheless,
James Fenimore Cooper
#63. Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.
Susie Bright
#64. The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.
Wallace D. Wattles
#66. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
Giannina Braschi
#67. And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer
Before all temples the upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for thou know'st. Thou from the first
Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
Dove-like sattest brooding on the vast abyss,
And madst it pregnant.
John Milton
#68. It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects ... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.
Anatol Rapoport
#69. I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.
Shan Sa
#70. The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.
Taraka Larson
#71. My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.
Dalai Lama
#73. Levi was all smiles and fond glances. "Sweetheart, get the door. I've got this."
Cath pressed her fingertips into her temples. "Did you just call me 'sweetheart'?"
He grinned. "It just came out. It felt good.
Rainbow Rowell
#74. usually perfectly curled and braided, has been slicked back into a simple bun. When I see gray at her temples,
Victoria Aveyard
#75. I started rubbing my temples and she suggested I don't really get headaches. It just hurts me to think.
Kelley Armstrong
#76. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. Burn all the food, and people will starve, weaken, and turn on one another. Destroy the temples and their acolytes, and the people will have nowhere to turn, no sanctuary, no charity. No hope.
Melinda Salisbury
#78. Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
Milton S. Eisenhower
#79. When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space ... It allows us to see hidden temples and tombs and pyramids and even entire settlements.
Sarah Parcak
#80. For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.
Griffin Jay
#81. Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to.
Cassandra Clare
#82. Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an organic part, nothing 'put separate'. The temple should exist exactly in the middle of the market, and all distinctions between the sacred and the secular should be dissolved.
Rajneesh
#83. The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno , Diana , Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian .
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#84. Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
Dean Koontz
#85. Until you have entered the house of the Lord and have received all the blessings which await you there, you have not obtained everything the Church has to offer. The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God
Thomas S. Monson
#86. I sunk into velvety nothingness. It caressed my skin, lapped at my temples, the nape of my neck. It circled me like smoke, its touch light, but all consuming. And just as I was about to lose consciousness, I heard the voice. 'Hello, Kali. I'm Zev.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#87. India cannot be India again until temples become alive again.
Osho
#88. Blessings available in the temple. He said: I consider that the building of temples is one of the important things required by the Lord of the Latter-day Saints in the dispensation of the fulness of times, that we may go into those temples and not only redeem the living but redeem our
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#89. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
John Muir
#90. 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
#91. We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).
Alain De Botton
#92. Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.
Alfred Austin
#94. The time has come to put into practice the charity taught by the masters and priests of all times. The words said between the pigeons' cooing under the sacred porticos of all the temples should now turn into concrete reality.
Samael Aun Weor
#95. Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
#97. Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.
Daniele Vare
#99. The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#100. Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
Kahlil Gibran
