Temple Quotes
640 Temple quotes by 433 unique authors
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Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.
— Bulleh Shah
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Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate,…
— Bob Dylan
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Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own…
— Rajneesh
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does…
— Denis Diderot
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Kirtan is for all people. There are no experts, no beginners. The practice itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves. Kirtan allows us to…
— Jai Uttal
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I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking…
— Preity Zinta
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A temple is a landscape of the soul.
— Joseph Campbell
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No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.
— Margaret Fuller
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Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.
— Totie Fields
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No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose…
— Joan Didion
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Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to…
— Northrop Frye
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Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.
— Bob Dylan
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I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I…
— Ja Rule
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
— Gabourey Sidibe
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You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot…
— Frederick Lenz
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He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Who Wrote These Temple Quotes
433 authors contributed a total of 640 Temple Quotes, led by these top contributors: