Top 316 Temples Quotes & Sayings

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.

I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.

We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."

I was quite old school and religious, keeping all my fasts and would prefer to spend my time in temples.

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according to tradition, regular satsang, devotional singing, and so forth. Our devotion and faith give life to temples, not rituals and ceremonies. Children, we should remember this when we are involved in temple matters.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.

If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!

Temples are an expression of God's love

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

The groves were God's first temples.

Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

I think toilets are more important than temples.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

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

I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

The only reason we go to temples is in the belief that God will solve all our sorrows in life.

Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Too many temples where we could worship the beast.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

Isn't it human beings who impart vitality to the image in the temple? If no one sculpts the stone, it doesn't become an image. If no one installs it in the temple, it does not acquire any sanctity. If no worship is done, it does not acquire any power. Without human effort there cannot be any temples. What is wrong then in saying that we should view great masters as equal to God? Temples installed by such spiritual masters have a special energy of their own.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.

There is a history which has to be reversed, and that is the demolition of our temples.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. From 1952 to 1959, there were four temples. My father was responsible and credited for having maximized this membership. From four temples to 50 temples, there was so much work involved.

We must build more temples, and we must build them more quickly. This is the season to build temples. They are needed, and we have the means to do so. The Lord will hold us accountable if we do not work with greater accomplishment than we are now doing.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

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