Temples Quotes - Page 13

• There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Untouchability, Entirety, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Dear Ones, Leaving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wine, Rose, Bowls

  Abraham Cowley (1784). “The Poetical Works of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.245

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Taverns, Stones, Way

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.228, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Views, Church

  4 Copy quote

• I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

  Vera Farmiga

  Buddhist, Tunes, Orthodox

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a danger only if he transforms them into fixed ideas-this is why I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: 'The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.'

  Louis Pasteur

  Believe, Ideas, Profound

  11 Copy quote

• Be generous with your heart! The more we spontaneously give, the more connected and enriched we will feel. What if we use each other as our living temples, and put our best offering foot forward to see what direction life points us? I believe that if we live in a state of offering - even if we think we have nothing to offer - life blesses us and we feel more at peace with who we are and what we have.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  "The Power of Offering: How Offering Can Instantly Unbind the Heart" by Agapi Stassinopoulos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

  Peter Tosh

  Running, Mind, Balance

  218 Copy quote

• The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking a year over this and doing it on a donkey. Eventually found the road to the church of the Madonna of San Biagio, a foursquare temple sitting all alone in the plain. Sangallo's fantasy of the Doric order in honey-colored sandstone, with shell-niches, rosettes, oculi under heavy entablatures. Any one ignorant of geometry scarcely dare enter this shrine to number, measure, and weight. So clean and crisp I could eat it for breakfast.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Struggle, Italian, Order

  4 Copy quote

• Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Mountain, World

  4 Copy quote

• Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Men, Calm

  7 Copy quote

• I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

  James E. Faust

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Home

  6 Copy quote

• We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

  Frederick William Faber

  World, Majesty, Conviction

  5 Copy quote

• We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

  Anita Roddick

  Church, Behaviour, Mosques

  4 Copy quote

• It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Flames, Voice, Greek

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

  Steve Jobs

  Sunday, Night, Meals

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Ambition, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

  John Milton

  Christ, Force, Profane

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.142

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it as such.

  Suzanne Whang

  Growth Hormones, Body, Antibiotics

  8 Copy quote

• The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Fire, Rome

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Mean, Psychology

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in receptive silence. When angry, or afflicted with any negative emotion, take time to be alone with God. (Do not talk with people who are angry; they are irrational and cannot be reasoned with. If you or they are angry, it is best to leave and pray.) Visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Exercise, Practice

  38 Copy quote

• It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Heart, Church, Desire

  7 Copy quote

• We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Two, Want

  4 Copy quote