Temple Quotes

• At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Winning
  • Fortunate
  • Venture

• Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

  

  Nancy Hale
  • Creation
  • Worship
  • Temple

• In some ways, though, Judaism was distinctive. All other religions in the empire were polytheistic—acknowledging and worshiping many gods of all sorts and functions: great gods of the state, lesser gods of various locales, gods who oversaw different aspects of human birth, life, and death. Judaism, on the other hand, was monotheistic; Jews insisted on worshiping only the one God of their ancestors, the God who, they maintained, had created this world, controlled this world, and alone provided what was needed for his people. According to Jewish tradition, this one all-powerful God had called Israel to be his special people and had promised to protect and defend them in exchange for their absolute devotion to him and him alone. The Jewish people, it was believed, had a “covenant” with this God, an agreement that they would be uniquely his as he was uniquely theirs. Only this one God was to be worshiped and obeyed; so, too, there was only one Temple, unlike in the polytheistic religions of the day in which, for example, there could be any number of temples to a god like Zeus. To be sure, Jews could worship God anywhere they lived, but they could perform their religious obligations of sacrifice to God only at the Temple in Jerusalem.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Life
  • Sacrifice
  • Gods

• It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Temple
  • Shelter
  • Dwelling

• Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

  

  Bulleh Shah
  • God
  • Human Heart
  • Temple

• The political benefactors are considered 'religious' heroes. They have statues and a place in the temple, and sacrifices are made in their honor. In a very real sense they are the 'saviors' and so are treated as such.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Heroes
  • Treated
  • Benefactors

• Our body is the temple of our spirit.

  

  George W. Romney
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Temple

• The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Holy
  • Temple
  • Sale

• The temple will be an ever-present reminder that God intended the family to be eternal.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Family
  • Reminder

• By the nourishing spirit of the temple we can learn the reality, the power and the hope of the Savior's Atonement in our personal life.

  

  Neill F. Marriott
  • Power
  • Temple
  • Atonement

• In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Philosopher
  • Moved
  • Temple

• Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessings—even 'all that he hath.'

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
  • Virtue
  • Blessings
  • The Lord

• I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Believe
  • Church
  • Master

• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Fame
  • Prose
  • Temple

• The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Foundation
  • Temple
  • Art Of Healing

• I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Religion

• The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were, unless His wives and children; but at any rate they filled the Temple, and how many there were who could not get into the Temple I cannot say. This is the account given by Isaiah, whether he told the truth or not I leave every body to judge for himself.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Lord
  • Scripture
  • Temple

• Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Art
  • House
  • Prayer

• Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Faith
  • Religion
  • Theater

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