Temples Quotes

718 Temples quotes by 488 unique authors

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. — George Herbert
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He… — William Cowper
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… — Alexander Pope
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of… — Jerome K. Jerome
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples… — Lucretius
If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper. — Chuck Palahniuk
The heart with compassion is the temple of God. — Sathya Sai Baba
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… — Phineas Fletcher
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught… — Omar Khayyam
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that… — Alberto Giacometti
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… — Bear Bryant
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from… — J. G. Holland
Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father. — David E. Sorensen
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted,… — John Muir
But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain… — John Muir
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly… — John Muir
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. — John Muir
The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when… — David
Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It… — Harold B. Lee
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose;… — John Muir
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther… — John Muir
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old. — John Muir

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