Temples Quotes - Page 6

• If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ifs, Destroyed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.95, Vintage

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Justice, Facade

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• A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facade

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.387, Library of America

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• As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are really worshipping, whether in the temple, in the image, or in the temple of their own bodies. First know for certain what they are doing - which more than ninety per cent of the revilers are thoroughly ignorant of - and then it will explain itself in the light of the Vedantic philosophy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Light, Ignorant

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1740, Manonmani Publishers

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• The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Book, Jewels, Library

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• The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Government, Risk, Church

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• Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Moving, Hypocrite, Idols

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• God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Church, Ruins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.285, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

  Lucretius

  Return Back, Heaven, Earth

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, II. 999,

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• If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

  Paul the Apostle

  Exercise, Men, Holy

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• I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Thinking, Giving, Priorities

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• Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings of an eternal marriage. By making and keeping sacred temple covenants, we evidence our love for God, for our companion, and our real regard for our posterity-even those yet unborn. Our family is the focus of our greatest work and joy in this life; so will it be throughout all eternity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Husband, Real, Sacrifice

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• I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.

  Kim Ki-duk

  Joy, Sorrow, Four Seasons

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• In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Silence, Mind

  "On Warren Hastings" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1841.

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• 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.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Heart

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• From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Justice, Geek, Worship

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Religion, Serious, Should

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• I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.

  Ralph Venning

  Beautiful, Men, Glasses

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• This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.

  David O. McKay

  Struggle, Responsibility, Numbers

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• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Gratitude, Morning

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.59

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• If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Today, Pulpit

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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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• I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they didn't live their lives with earthly vanities, but they lived their lives for eternal verities. And I think that if we might catch that enthusiasm and the reality of resurrection, we would live by a completely different standard as well.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Writing, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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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