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Quotes About Temple

Attolians did not invest much belief in their religion. They dutifully attended temple festivals and used their gods for cursing and little else.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Madame de la Tour occasionally read aloud some affecting history of the Old or New Testament. Her auditors reasoned but little upon these sacred volumes, for their theology centred in a feeling of devotion towards the Supreme Being, like that of nature: and their morality was an active principle, like that of the Gospel. These families had no particular days devoted to pleasure, and others to sadness. Every day was to them a holyday, and all that surrounded them one holy temple
~ Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
A Claridge's in London or a pub, a Cirro's in Paris or a bistro — alehouse, coffee-house, bodega, caravansary — by any name each is a sanctuary, a temple for talk, and for the observance of the warming rites of comradeship.
~ Beryl Markham
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and His robe filled the temple. Isaiah 6:1
~ Beth Moore
After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Luke 2:46
~ Beth Moore
God said to me, "You are not to build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood." 1 Chronicles 28:3
~ Beth Moore
Our one true God dwelled inside the Holy of Holies in the Temple at Jerusalem, and I was sure it was impious to speak of a similar place existing inside humans, and worse still to suggest that yearnings inside girls like me had intimations of divinity. It was the most beautiful, wicked blasphemy I'd ever heard.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
upon us and he wishes you by his side. He compelled me to tell you that he is safe. I, though, must warn of dangers. The people are emboldened by the appearance of a Messiah and there is much talk of revolution. Jesus teaches each day in the Temple and the Jewish authorities set spies upon us the moment we enter the gates.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Choiak, son of Dios and a keeper of camels in the village of Soknopaiou, his wife having died and left him toil and suffering, does hand over his two-year-old daughter, Diodora, to a priest of the Temple of Isis for the sum of 1,400 silver drachmae.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Is it a time for you, you I say, to dwell in your roofed-in houses?' (Haggai 1:4). The reply might have been that it was unreasonable to expect anyone to live in a roofless house, but the question made its point. What worth did they set on their God, when they left His Temple in ruins?
~ Joyce G Baldwin
I kept thinking we were trapped in hell. Infernal, lung-curdling smoke? Check. Eardrum-bursting, satanic thunder? Check. Multitudes of shrieking imps? Check. [...] I had the gut feeling I was trapped there eternally, back behind First Baptist's aluminum-sided temple.
~ Julia Elliott
Our body is our instrument so it's really important for us to treat it right.
~ Avi Kaplan
Hey, that victory weed was the only smoke I've had in the last six months," Duke protested...."You know my body is a temple." "Yeah, but your mouth is an atheist," Ethan shot back.
~ Evangeline Anderson
The temple is holy because it is not for sale
~ Ezra Pound
Y Cristo dónde está? ¿El puritano rabioso que sacó a fuete a los mercaderes del templo? ¿Es que la cruz lo curó de rabietas, y ya no ve ni oye ni huele?
~ Fernando Vallejo
What are the girls thinking of? At least half are nostalgic for death, and for a temple, and for all of those clothes.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
The secret of Giorgi's universe was number, for it was built, so he believed, by its Architect as a perfectly proportioned Temple, in accordance with unalterable laws of cosmic geometry.
~ Frances A. Yates
Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities.
~ Billy Graham
Take care of your body; the Bible calls it "a temple of the Holy Spirit" [1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV.
~ Billy Graham
the mountains with their purpling canyons and glittering snow peaks were a book to which there was no end. The beauty of the hills was a sermon, the whispering trees a prayer, the mountain streams songs of gladness and hymns of peace. The forest was his temple, and there he worshiped.
~ Bob Welch
Love is a temple, Love a higher law.
~ bono quotes ii
Many of the little intrusions into our lives, the little difficulties and the petty problems that beset us, are put into proper perspective when we view the linking of the generations for the eternities. We become much more patient then. So if you want the influence of dignity and wisdom and inspiration and spirituality to envelop your life, involve yourself in temple and genealogical work.
~ Boyd K. Packer
What could Yeshua of Nazareth have made of Martin Luther's outburst Death to the Law! which in many German Lutherans who served Hitler became Death to the Jews! The Germans would not have crucified Jesus: they would have exterminated him at Auschwitz, their version of the Temple.
~ Harold Bloom
It was Aomame's firm belief that the human body was a temple, to be kept as strong and beautiful and clean as possible, whatever one might enshrine there.
~ Haruki Murakami