Temples Quotes
718 quotes by 501 authors
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Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you…
— Clement of Alexandria
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From time to time, ask yourself these questions: "Am I ready to meet my Maker?" "Am I worthy of all the blessings He has in…
— Russell M. Nelson
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important…
— Robert D. Hales
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We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover…
— Jack Kornfield
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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
— Bertrand Russell
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Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty.…
— Rajneesh
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God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
— Rajneesh
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So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no temple, no church…
— Rajneesh
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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
— Milan Kundera
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
— Edward Thorndike
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To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions…
— Charles Darwin
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
— Seneca the Younger
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