Temples Quotes

Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

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.

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

The library is the temple of learning.

Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.

Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings.

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.

At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

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

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.

What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.

I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

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.

Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.