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Quotes About Temple

Im Kopfe trage ich Bijouterien, Der Zukunft Krondiamanten, Die Tempelkleinodien des neuen Gotts, Des grossen Unbekannten.
~ Heinrich Heine
I've written a very long piece of music recently, the 'Veil of the Temple,' which lasts about seven hours. It's really a kind of vigil. It takes place during the night, waiting for the resurrection of Christ.
~ John Tavener
At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.
~ Jill Soloway
There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.
~ Tim Kaine
There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; my philosophy is kindness.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
The first glimpse of the power or function of the Shekinah is seen in the meaning of her name, which is derived from the Hebrew root Shakhan meaning 'to dwell'. This meaning hints at her tangible presence as a visible manifestation of the light of wisdom in the books of the Old Testament, as the burning bush seen by Moses, in the Ark of the Covenant and in the Temple of Solomon.
~ Sorita d'Este
But, nevertheless, we do not build temples, and ordain priests, rites, and sacrifices for these same martyrs; for they are not our gods, but their God is our God.
~ St. Augustine
But why is Faith believed to be a goddess, and why does she herself receive temple and altar? For whoever prudently acknowledges her makes his own self an abode for her.
~ St. Augustine
In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where theres the temple of an emperor, where theres a fishermans tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Solo si toda la cristiandad unida protege a su último bastión en el este, podrá seguir siendo un templo de fe Santa Sofía, la última y a la vez la más bella catedral del cristianismo romano oriental.
~ Stefan Zweig
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.
~ Owen Feltham
In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.
~ Thomas Huxley
Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.
~ Agapi Stassinopoulos
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
~ Horace Mann
All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievementmust inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins
~ Betrand Russell
my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit the one he created Even though I was the one Who had just made up the business Of the one hundred Chinese silences- The Silence of the Night Boat. And the Silence of the Lotus, Cousin to the Silence of the Temple Bell Only deeper and softer…
~ Billy Collins
Though you forget the way to the Temple, There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
~ T.S. Eliot
The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without; For this is the law of life; and you must remember that while there is time of prosperity The people will neglect the Temple, and in time of adversity they will decry it.
~ T.S. Eliot
Lark: You shouldn't yell at her. Frostpine: Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, but our Water dedicates would try the patience of a stone . — Dedicates Lark and Frostpine when the latter found out that the Water Temple had run out of warded boxes
~ Tamora Pierce
One of the problems in understanding sensory issues is that sensory sensitivities are very variable, among individuals and within the same individual. A person can be hyper-sensitive in one area (like hearing) and hypo-sensitive in another (like touch). One
~ Temple Grandin
But then the trouble begins. Jesus, not content to quit when he is ahead, points out that the gifts of God do not come automatically to those who attend the Temple And this is really too much! … The idea that the message is for worthless outsiders rather than us! The very notion that unbelievers will be the recipients of God's favor and we will not! —Robert McAfee Brown
~ Justo L. González
A sore pain troubles me day and night, and I cannot sleep; I long for the meeting with my Beloved, and my father's house gives me pleasure no more. The gates of the sky are opened, the temple is revealed: I meet my husband, and leave at His feet the offering of my body and my mind.
~ Kabir
Mijn vader huilde nooit. Als hij bedroefd was, liep hij naar de tempel van de onbekende heilige. Daar knielde hij naast het graf, tikte zachtjes met een steentje tegen de grafsteen, praatte met de heilige en als hij zich weer beter voelde, wandelde hij terug naar huis.
~ Kader Abdolah
There's a temple to a dark god or some such in the basement. I'll be there." "Ah, yes…that can happen if one doesn't keep an eye on the drains…
~ Kaja Foglio