Temples Quotes - Page 14

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

  Swami Muktananda

  Body, Care

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• My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith.

  Ibn Arabi

  Heart, Love Is, Idols

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Order, Long

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Religion

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.641, Bible Study Steps

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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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• Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mind, World, Chaos

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 10, 2011

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

  Scot McKnight

  Memorial, Reason, Walks

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• Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Ends

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.4, Penguin

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• In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz finally proves the existence of the legendary 'sacred science' of the Ancients and systematically demonstrates its modus operandi. It was this great science-based upon an intimate and exact knowledge of cosmic principles-that fused art, religion, science, and philosophy into one coherent whole and sustained Ancient Egypt for three thousand years.

  John Anthony West

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Kingdoms, Worship, Form

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• The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Blessing, Sacred, Worship

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• On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Summer, Powerful

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.57

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• Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mom, Dad, School

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• Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

  Clint Walker

  Falling In Love, Nine, Recalls

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• A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Heaven, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream, Country, Play

  1904 Of Heaven, Keegan speaking. John Bull's Other Island, act 4.

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