Temples Quotes - Page 12

• Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.

  Emile Chartier

  Men, Might, Vaults

  "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

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• Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Fall, Future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

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• The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God

  Thomas S. Monson

  Blessing, Important, Church

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• Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

  Jerry Doyle

  Two, Amusement, Body

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• It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple so [their children] from the time [they are] infant[s] could look at the picture every day [until] it becomes a part of [their lives]. When [they reach] the age that [they need] to make [the] very important decision [concerning going to the temple], it will have already been made.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, House, Decision

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• Brothers and sisters, I believe that there are few, even temple workers, who comprehend the full meaning and power of the temple endowment.  Seen for what it is, it is the step-by-step ascent into the Eternal Presence.  If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives.

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Brother, Motivation

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• He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.

  Sherry Thomas

  Realization, Fool

  Sherry Thomas (2012). “Private Arrangements”, p.34, NLA Digital LLC

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• There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Thinking, Said

  "The Quotable Woman". Book by Elaine T Partnow, p. 226, 1978.

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• To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Noon, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.235, Delphi Classics

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• If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Science, Saint

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• City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Clever, Cities

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• My heart is my temple and with it I can see and hear Truth. My heart is my conscience and Truth is God.

  Suzy Kassem

  Truth, Heart, I Can

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• If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police.

  Uri Orbach

  Change, Hands, Police

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• Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Love You, Heart, Safe

  Agapi Stassinopoulos (2007). “Gods and Goddesses in Love: Making the Myth a Reality for You”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city. The Temple of Heaven slipped by underneath, that perfect pattern in its ample park. Then the wide plain ruled to the far horizon. Soon the aerodrome.

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Cities, Giving, Perfect

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• I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Hands, Play

  "Q&A: John Elkington". Interview with Jessie Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November 2008.

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• Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is, Essence, Want

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Heart, Buddhism

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Class, Blasphemy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, House, Church

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Mind, Quality

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• The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Idols, Atoms

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• To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Existence, Rejects

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Appeals, Universal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Firsts, Purity, Purification

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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