Temples Quotes - Page 13

• See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands,
  And justifies himself with lifted hands.
  Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes,
  Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

  John Bunyan

  Eye, Hands, Guilt

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• What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

  Andrea Gibson

  Believe, Mirrors

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.26, SCB Distributors

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• Therefore run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from one Father, and is with and has gone to one.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Running, Jesus, Father

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• Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation

  Berel Wein

  Blessed, Justice, Generations

  Berel Wein (1990). “Triumph of Survival: The Story of the Jews in the Modern Era 1650-1990”, p.14, Mesorah Publications

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• It was about finding the sacred within myself, my center, my peaceful core. We each have a sacred space within us, a part of us. This sacred space is a temple, a temple to our inner power, our intuition, and our connection with the divine. Discovery of psychic powers, spells, and meditation are all things that lead us to the temple. They help us find the road within and walk our path to the inner temple.

  Christopher Penczak

  Discovery, Psychics, Space

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• We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

  Langston Hughes

  Strong, Kwanzaa, Mountain

  Langston Hughes, Christopher C. De Santis (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

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• The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.

  David A. Bednar

  Beautiful, Heaven, And Love

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• My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating.

  Joan Rivers

  Needs, Body, Body Is A Temple

  "Melissa Rivers Staged a Plastic Surgery Intervention for Mom Joan, 78" by Allison Corneau, www.usmagazine.com. February 03, 2012.

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

  Swami Muktananda

  Body, Care

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• Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Beautiful, Ifs And, Appreciate

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• A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Princess, Heart, Men

  J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the blessings of the temple is the perspective that it provides. When we go to the house of the Lord, we leave all of our cares and problems at the door. And when we come back out, they’re still there. We have to pick them back up and they haven’t changed, but what has changed is us.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Blessing, Doors, Perspective

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• Kiss the mouth
  which tells you,
  here,
  here is the world.
  This mouth. This laughter.
  These temple bones.

  Galway Kinnell

  Laughter, Kissing, World

  Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Church, Trying, Classroom

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• You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, you can honor the temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs, and treating it with dignity and love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Exercise, Color, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 15, 2015

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• Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Art, Prayer

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• Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.

  Concepcion Cabrera de Armida

  Inspiration, Thinking, Light

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• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

  E. M. Forster

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• 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

  Christian, Cities, Numbers

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• . . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Journey, Men

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• It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

  Winston Churchill

  Vices, Naked, East

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

  Hernando Cortes

  Wall, Details, Able

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• 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

  Wind, Water, House

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

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• O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

  Jeremy Bentham

  Math, Destiny, Pedants

  Jeremy Bentham (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.145

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• I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

  Meryl Streep

  Church, Doctrine, Synagogue

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