A Quote by Edith Hamilton

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Edith Hamilton

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Creation Equilibrium Excellence Greek Mind Par Spirit Temple

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Edith Hamilton
American - Writer
August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963

There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's hidden Being." This means that we and all other creatures live by a sanctity that is inexpressibly intimate, for to every creature, the gift of life is a portion of the breath and spirit of God. (pg. 308, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)

Wendell Berry

Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people….Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.

Howard W. Hunter

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Alberto Manguel

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Charles Alexander Eastman

One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.

Satya Nadella

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

William C. Brown

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

John Brunner

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

Ted Malloch

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

Plato

Regular temple attendance is one of the simplest ways you can bless those who are waiting in the spirit world. If you live near a temple, partake of the opportunity to go often and regularly.