Temples Quotes

Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.

I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up?

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

The temple will be an ever-present reminder that God intended the family to be eternal.

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.

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

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.

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?

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

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.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

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).

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

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.

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.

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

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

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

D'you think he would have thought ahead like that?" said Henry. "Assuredly," said Will. "The man's a strategist." He tapped his temple. "Like me.

If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.

In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.

Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.

So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.

I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

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.

Our body is the temple of our spirit.

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.

There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit of Elijah move them to record the identities and facts of their ancestors' lives.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.