Shrines Quotes

• Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Faith, Heart, Endless

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

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• I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Tolerance, Inquiry

  Thomas Jefferson (1943). “Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction”

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• Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Believe, People, Spirit

  "Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi". www.imdb.com. April 20, 2002.

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• Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

  Bob Seger

  Heart, Advice, Courses

  Song: In Your Time, Album: Greatest Hits

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• I am in love with every church
  And mosque
  And temple
  And any kind of shrine
  Because I know it is there
  That people say the different names
  Of the One God.

  Hafez

  Names, People, Church

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• There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Temples, Save Nature

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.160, World Wisdom, Inc

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• We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Religious, Icons, Honor

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• Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

  Honore de Balzac

  Light, Shining, Clay

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• The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Doors, World, Aliens

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.14, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

  Victor Hugo

  Friendship, Running, Wine

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• Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

  Hafez

  God, Self, Mosques

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• Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

  Charles Buck

  Kitchen, Tables, Priests

  Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.164

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• For I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.

  Saraha

  Body, My Own

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• The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine

  Alfred de Musset

  Heart, Love Is, Divine

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “Poems [tr. by A. Lang, C. C. Hayden, Marie A. Clarke, George Santayana, Emily S. Forman”

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• Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

  Guru Nanak

  Eight, Sacred, Be Kind

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• For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.

  Doreen Valiente

  Two, Paganism, Pillars

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• There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

  John Brown

  Country, Memories, Lying

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• Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Memories, Heart, Past

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.586, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

  Demosthenes

  Brother, Ideas, Differences

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• We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

  Robert Breault

  God, Pilgrim, Believer

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• What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

  Felicia Hemans

  War, Jewels, Sea

  Felicia Hemans (1850). “Records of Woman, with Other Poems”, p.135, University Press of Kentucky

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• If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Air, Bhajans, Community

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• There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

  Mervyn Peake

  Laughter, Ignorance, Ice

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• Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Art, Home, Museums

  "Shrine or Factory?" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1918.

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• I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Memories, Regret

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.346, Routledge

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