Temples Quotes - Page 19

• We, unaccustomed to courage
  exiles from delight
  live coiled in shells of loneliness
  until love leaves its high holy temple
  and comes into our sight
  to liberate us into life.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Courage, Loneliness

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• My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where
  the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry
  meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

  Pearl Bailey

  Food, Past, Bridges

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• I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.

  Rumi

  God, Heart, Church

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• Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

  Harold Urey

  Cities, Feet, History

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• One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
  Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Sight, Swim

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.275

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• Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

  Maya Angelou

  Patience, Wall, Passion

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• Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, War, Jealous

  "Religion: A Dialogue" by Arthur Schopenhauer,

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• A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

  H. G. Wells

  Religious, Men, People

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.10332, Delphi Classics

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• No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

  Thomas Browne

  Science, Soul, Scientist

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• Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strength, Men, Dust

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• I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

  Barbara Olson

  Buddhist, Thinking, Worry

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• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Writing, Poetry, Fame

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• The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it's a beautiful temple for God to reside.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Knights, Climbing, Hands

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1851). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.235

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• Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Life, Art, Hard Work

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• Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Jesus, Believer

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.4278, Harper Collins

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• The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of sync with the whole purpose of the Lord's house. "The atmosphere of my Father's house," Jesus seemed to say, "is to be prayer. The aroma around my Father must be that of people opening their hearts in worship and supplication. This is not a place to make a buck. This is a house for calling on the Lord.

  Jim Cymbala

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

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• How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Sleep, Night

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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• Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Islands, Justice, Diversity

  Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

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• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, Strong, Dark

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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• I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

  William Wells Brown

  Brother, Wind, Justice

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• I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Beer, Ice

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• I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world.

  Claire Danes

  Character, Animal, Thinking

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  Satish Kumar

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Fire, Church

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