Quotes About The Body As A Temple

#1. Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Khalil Gibran

#2. A sore pain troubles me day and night, and I cannot sleep; I long for the meeting with my Beloved, and my father's house gives me pleasure no more. The gates of the sky are opened, the temple is revealed: I meet my husband, and leave at His feet the offering of my body and my mind.

Kabir

#3. I understand that my BODY is "The Temple" of God.

Lee Vickers

#4. The body is your only home in the universe. It is your house of belonging here in the world. It is a very sacred temple. To spend time in silence before the mystery of your body brings you toward wisdom and holiness.

John O'Donohue

#5. Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.

Swami Muktananda

#6. If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.

Sylvia Plath

#7. Take care of your body; the Bible calls it "a temple of the Holy Spirit" [1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV.

Billy Graham

#8. A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.

Gabourey Sidibe

#10. I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art ...

John Geddes

#11. Your body is a sacred-temple of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#13. Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight Greek eyebrows. They start at the hairline at my temple and, left unchecked, will grow straight across my face and onto yours.

Tina Fey

#14. Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.

Marianne Williamson

#15. The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#16. I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

Iman

#17. The body is the temple of the heart. How shall we reach the sacred image unless we enter the gates?

Thomas Burnett Swann

#18. My body is a holy temple.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture.

S. Kelley Harrell

#20. Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

George Eliot

#21. It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come ... he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#22. You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to dwell there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy.

Oli Hille

#23. Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

April Winchell

#24. Silence nurtures the soul, relaxes the body temple and gives us the strength we need in moments of uncertainty. Welcome it.

Ana Ortega

#25. It was Aomame's firm belief that the human body was a temple, to be kept as strong and beautiful and clean as possible, whatever one might enshrine there.

Haruki Murakami

#26. There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

Novalis

#27. Let thy holy temple be thy body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. The body is a temple, where God dwells.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

Mackenzie Davis

#30. I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it as such.

Suzanne Whang

#31. 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

#32. The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#33. From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Gina Barreca

#34. I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

Emo Philips

#35. My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won't do any more than I want to do.

Jenny Han

#36. Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#37. The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

#38. I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It's our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I'm on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.

Marianne Williamson

#39. Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

Adi Shankara

#40. my body is a temple, and I am the god it was built for

Savannah Brown