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Quotes About Temple

This time the senators met in the temple of the goddess Concord, or Harmony, a sure sign that affairs of state were anything but harmonious.
~ Mary Beard
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.
~ Unknown
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Remove the books from the cellar! Leave nothing in the Temple! Put the chests in the esplanade and we'll meet at the door of the Al-Asqa at nightfall!
~ Unknown
School is a temple of knowledge, the library is a temple of wisdom, and Church is a temple of God.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It's a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
~ Matt Taibbi
And this is the appointment of God himself; for as, under the law, those who ministered about holy things lived of the things of the temple, so hath the Lord ordained that those who preach the gospel should live of the gospel, 1 Cor. 9:11, 13, 14.
~ Matthew Henry
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
~ Maya Angelou
I belong to no religion, my religion is love and heart is my temple. Always remember that ceremonies cover me, but pure love reveals me.
~ Meher Baba
City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Doing of good is the best temple ever built!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sure, I'm flamboyant. I can afford to be--I'm a damn good lawyer. You've got to ring the bell to get the people into the temple.
~ Unknown
The Great Goddess—the Divine Ancestress—had been worshiped from the beginnings of the Neolithic periods of 7000 BC until the closing of the last Goddess temples, about AD 500. Some authorities would extend Goddess worship as far into the past as the Upper Paleolithic Age of about 25,000 BC.
~ Merlin Stone
the Temple of Solomon was founded in 1118.
~ Unknown
The sack of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and the destruction of the temple prompted a massive exodus of Jews from the Holy Land.
~ Unknown
In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old covenant, and even within this model priests were required to abstain from having sex with their wives during the time they served in the Temple. Catholics believe that priests fulfill this Temple relationship ever day - the Mass and the Eucharist mean they are serving in the Temple every day of their ordained lives.
~ Unknown
The temple, or the house of God, truly lies within us rather than outside.
~ Unknown
God withdrew from the temple in Ezekiel's day because He would not and could not dwell together with idolatry, immorality, and violence. The principle will never change—the Lamb will not be married to someone who remains wedded to his sins, in spite of what some modern teachers claim.
~ Michael L. Brown
Right there, the Jew temple of Jerusalem beneath us, I swore to myself that I would finally enter him - the boy prophet, the ultimate challenge, my obsession. I would enter him the way I entered the Emperor's gates after a campaign: invincible, majestic. But hailed by his groans rather than by the cries of banner-waving masses.
~ Unknown
Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol' Frankie's brows quirked. "You wield sarcasm, madam, as well as a master swordsman does." "Gee, thanks." I smiled at him and batted my lashes. Quit flirting . Patrick flicked the command into my head. He sounded half-annoyed, half-amused. I'm not flirting. Quit being cute and likeable. An impossible request. I've always been too adorable for words.
~ Michele Bardsley
Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it.... Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.
~ Unknown
Neither Buddha built a Buddhist temple nor did Christ build a Catholic church, but these humans in their name have left the spirituality seekers in the lurch. No religious organizations have ever delivered God to humans, yes an idea of God may have been made available. The divinity has to be self realized, stop searching in temples, look within and get MickeyMized.
~ Unknown