Temples Quotes - Page 20

• We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Cities, Bored, Sun

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.3, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Years, Cities, Bored

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• 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

  Mean, Journey, Soul

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.22, Rodale

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• The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Stones, Next, Masonic

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• Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally"; and that, growing together in love and faithfulness, we can give children roots and wings.

  Gerrit W. Gong

  Children, Destiny, Wings

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• Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

  Dean Koontz

  Power, Worship, University

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.39, Bantam

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• Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, America, Brooklyn

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• That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted into His family, He opened up for you through His Son’s death on the cross a way of fellowship and relationship that makes it possible for you to bypass the temple and its animal sacrifices. You don’t have to talk to God through a priest. You can go right into the presence of God Almighty and He will hear you.

  David Jeremiah

  Daughter, Father, Son

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• I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

  Axel Munthe

  Home, Light, Wind

  "The Story of San Michele".

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• Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

  Matt Taibbi

  Heart, Night, Hands

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• All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.

  Diana Vreeland

  Buddhist, Children, Color

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

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• I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
  The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

  Pico Iyer

  Rain, Sleep, Autumn

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• If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

  Aesop

  Thieves, Towns, Stealing

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• I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down and now is that time. I want to thank Temple University, its fans and community for allowing me to do what I love for so long. It has never been a job for me, but a passion.

  John Chaney

  Jobs, Passion, Long

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• There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Spiritual, Real, Blessing

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• We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

  John R. Platt

  Lying, Add, Bricks

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• The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

  Gordon Wright

  Past, Bricks And Mortar, Sorrow

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• The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

  James Madison

  Lying, Liberty

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828: 1816-1828”, p.517

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• The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

  Ansel Adams

  Knowing, Earth, Unions

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• 'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

  William Wordsworth

  Faith, Flower, Wind

  William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.180

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• Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.

  Carlos Barrios

  Writing, Names, People

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• Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

  Giannina Braschi

  War, America, Economy

  "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

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• For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Israel, Sanctuary, Building

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Unity, Wish, Read Between The Lines

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever offered -- that truth which we can all find, if we will but seek in things, not in words; in nature, not in human imagination; in our own hearts, not in temples made with hands.

  Frances Wright

  Heart, Hands, Imagination

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