Quotes About Temple

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

She knows too that this temple isn't what she still like to think it is - the house of Buddha. She knows it's just a diagram of her own unconscious mind.

Por colinas, caballos veloces aplastaban la nieve profunda… A un lado un templo sagrado solitario asomaba al camino. ………………… Mas de pronto estalló la nevasca, y la nieve cayó a grandes copos. En el ala azabache un silbido, sobrevuela un cuervo el trineo. ¡El gemido auguraba desdichas! Los caballos de andar presuroso oteaban las sombras lejanas, y alzando sus crines… ZHUKOVSKI

We know from the New Testament that our bodies are temples of the Lord. We, too, are divided into three parts—spirit, soul, and body (1 Thess. 5:23). God's presence through His Holy Spirit dwells in the innermost part of our being—our spirit. As we work our way through the tabernacle, we will discover how each part not only points to a heavenly reality, but also depicts and points to Christ. "Christ is the perfect Tabernacle. In Him is fulfilled all that

He dwells in me and gives me being, life, sensation, intelligence; and makes a temple of me, since I am created in the likeness and image of the Divine Majesty.

She poured out a measure but Temple declined. 'Drink and I have had some long and painful conversations and found we simply can't agree.' 'Drink and I can't agree either.' She shrugged and tossed it down herself. 'But we keep on having the argument.

I will lead a man to dear one -- I don't want the little joy -- And I'll quietly lay to sleep The glad, tired little boy. In a chilly room once more I will pray to Mother of God, It is hard to be a hermit, To be happy is also hard. Only fiery sleep will come to me, I'll enter a temple on the hill, Five-domed, white, and stone-hewn, On the paths remembered well.

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

Eres lo que falta a todo. Eres lo que falta a cada cosa para poder amarla por siempre. Llave extraviada de las puertas del Templo, camino encubierto del Palacio, Isla lejana que la bruma nunca deja ver...

Cinema is a temple and who am I to say which person deserves entry?

Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.

The augur could choose which birds to observe, or ignore a sign simply by saying, non consulto. Having made a verbal declaration (effatio) of the area or templum in his field of vision, he remained the master of his own inner convictions (Liv., 1, 18, 8: animo finivit).

Aurelian consecrated the cult of the 'Invincible Sun' (Sol Invictus) in a gigantic temple, embellished with the spoils of Palmyra. He gave it a special college of pontiffs, and instituted fouryearly games. We know nothing of the special rituals applied to this Sol Invictus. The new sanctuary followed an eastern tradition, with its tholos, or dome, in the centre of a closed courtyard isolating the sacred area from the profane world.

In 493 Bc, at the foot of the Aventine, that extra-pomoerial hill where mostly non-native inhabitants settled, a temple was founded to Ceres, Liber and Libera, a plebeian triad who from then on matched the Capitoline trio. This cult, imported from Great Greece, was usually served by Greek priestesses (from Naples or Velia) 'and all the language used there is Greek' (Cic., Balb., 55).

That is why each year, from 4 to 10 April, games were celebrated (Megalesia): theatrical shows in front of the temple and chariot races in the Circus Maximus on the last day.

Significantly, too, the triumvirs Octavian, Antony and Lepidus, promised to build a temple to Isis and Serapis to win favour with the populace (DC, 47, 15, 4). But the promise was not kept, and the war setting Octavian against Cleopatra's lover would become a war of the gods, between Apollo and 'barking Anubis

Followers of Jupiter Heliopolitanus had to meet in a sanctuary in the Trastevere district where water had a role to play, as in the temples of Atargatis which were complemented by a pool containing sacred fish. This Syrian goddess was part of a triad worshipped in Baalbek, with a divine son likened to Mercury:

the Vestals also had custody of mysterious fetishes which were considered to be the sacred pledges of Roman hegemony (pignora imperii), hidden in the strongroom of the temple or penus Vestae.