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Quotes About Temple

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.
~ George Herbert
Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.
~ Grace Aguilar
After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.
~ Jonathan Sacks
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't
~ William Shakespeare
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
~ Jean-Claude Van Damme
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
~ Carl T. Rowan
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
~ Julius Wellhausen
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!
~ Axel Munthe
We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.
~ Linda K. Burton
In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.
~ James E. Faust
What are we going to do when we get into the temple, anyway? Are we going to fight our way through the Necromancers on our
~ Derek Landy, Death Bringer
Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.
~ Ray Lewis
Truth is the fulcrum of the lever, faith. Particular truths are so many polished stones, which faith builds into the wall of the spiritual temple.
~ JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER
The real miracle therefore was their resolute, logic-defying bitachon. Only because they looked for it, did they find the pure oil. Also because of their trust and positive thinking, one night's worth of oil lasted a full eight nights—the entire time that they needed it to last while re-dedicating the temple. Through their miraculous bitachon, they were able to light up the deepest darkness.
~ DovBer Pinson
Dr. David Jeremiah
~ Ezek. 8:3).
Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon the university as the temple of knowledge. How could an insane person like her
~ Eckhart Tolle
The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind. Nonforgiveness is the very nature of the mind, just as the mind-made false self, the ego, cannot survive without strife and conflict. The mind cannot forgive. Only you can. You become present, you enter your body, you feel the vibrant peace and stillness that emanate from Being. That is why Jesus said: "Before you enter the temple, forgive.
~ Eckhart Tolle
if a strict obedience had been paid to the order, that every male, three times in the year, should present himself before the lord Jehovah, it would have been impossible that the Jews could ever have spread themselves beyond yhe narrow limits of the promised land. That obstacle was indeed removed by the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem.
~ Edward Gibbon
The temple of Diana was, however, admired as one of the wonders of the world. Successive empires, the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman, had revered its sanctity and enriched its splendor.
~ Edward Gibbon
Everything makes love with silence. They promised me a silence like fire, a house of silence. Suddenly the temple is a circus the light a drum.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik