Temples Quotes

• Temples are an expression of God's love

  Jean A. Stevens

  Expression, God's Love

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• A temple is a landscape of the soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, Church, Landscape

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.101, Anchor

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• Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Purity, Purification

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• You are never lost when you can see the temple.

  Gary E. Stevenson

  Lost

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• I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Thinking, World, Lord

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• When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Veils, Might

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• The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Spiritual, Silence, Spirituality

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, John F. Addington (1859). “A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets”, p.477

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• The temple of silence and reconciliation.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Silence, Graves, Reconciliation

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• 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

  Prayer, Heart, House

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

  George Burns

  Truth, Heart, Reality

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• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.

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• The temple of art is built in words.

  J. G. Holland

  Art, Art Is, Built

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

  David E. Sorensen

  Father, Grace, Goodness

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• Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Heart

  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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• I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Blessed, House, Promise

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• Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  The Dalai Lama, Tsongkhapa (2017). “The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack

  Pope Paul VI

  Cracks, Way, Satan

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• Look to the temple of the Lord as the great symbol of your membership.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Looks, Membership, Lord

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• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

  Edward Thorndike

  Wise, Wisdom, Fall

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a degenerate society, he remained pure and true. He is my hero. He stood alone. I feel somehow he stands atop the temple today, beckoning us to have courage, to remember who we are and to be worthy to enter the holy temple, to 'arise and shine forth,' to stand above the worldly clamor and to, as Isaiah prophesied, 'Come to the mountain of the Lord'-the holy temple.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Hero, Angel, Shining

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• 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

  Reality, Spirit, Atonement

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• The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Heart, Broken

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.389, Editora Dracaena

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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

  Shining, Purpose, Scripture

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• In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Spirit, Anthem

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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