Temples Quotes - Page 7

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Darkdoom? Darkdoom did this?" Nero was visibly surprised. He placed a hand on his forehead, rubbing his temples. "Oh, why is it always the bald ones?

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

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.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real?

Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors.

The endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple are so gloriously rich in meaning that you will want to allow significant time to receive those ordinances and to ponder their meaning.

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.