Temples Quotes · Page 8

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

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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

— Emo Philips

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to…

— Stephenie Meyer

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

— Thomas Carlyle

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

— Terence Conran

Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.

— Deepak Chopra

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

— Rajneesh

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars.…

— Ben Katchor

Of all the opportunities my priesthood authority affords, there is none grander than the privilege of being in one of our temples…

— M. Russell Ballard

Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your…

— Elaine S. Dalton

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and…

— Rumi

Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose…

— Mark E. Petersen

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I…

— Lizzy Caplan

It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober…

— Tertullian

Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life…

— James Gates Percival

She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his…

— Maya Banks

Be generous with your heart! The more we spontaneously give, the more connected and enriched we will feel. What if we use…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people…

— Rob Bell

Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in…

— Godfrey Higgins

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it…

— James Taylor

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Timothy Keller

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

— Margaret Fuller

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a…

— Allan Sherman

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

— Anonymous

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

— Scot McKnight

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

— Swami Vivekananda

I remember, as a kid, my grandfather would grab my temples and say, 'You've got to focus, Jake. You've got to focus.'

— Jake Peavy

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

— Milton S. Eisenhower

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

— Marcus Aurelius

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

— Ivan Chtcheglov

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

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

— Bill Vaughan