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“Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.”

Thinking Mind Wells Mean Doe Religion Hearing Factors Temples Monasteries Taming

Book:The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga

Source: The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga

“No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.”

Hard Built Temples

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.”

Ifs Way Long Doe Home Wish Safe Delight Wander Temples Temperance

Book:Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq

Source: Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq

“See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!”

Years Broken Waste Spread Temples Rome Tombs Arches Devouring Nodding

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc

“Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God”

People Should Might Nations Voice Silence Worship Raised Temples Voice Of God

Book:Diary of a Pilgrimage

Source: Diary of a Pilgrimage

“For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.”

Mind Looks Able Lying Blood Society All Things Stones Look Up Temples Altars Piety

Author:Lucretius

“If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.”

Ifs Real Body Too Much Mines Your Body Temples Maintenance Fixers Body Is A Temple

Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“The heart with compassion is the temple of God.”

Heart Compassion Temples

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.”

Years Dying Breathe Temples Tides Verses Strain Pierce Swans Chanting

Author:Phineas Fletcher

“And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.”

Knows Light Lost Caught Temples Flash Wrath Kindles Taverns

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.”

Passion House Interest Loss Groups Cards Ruins Temples Empires Gambling Squares Indifferent Infant Spectators Ivory

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.”

Ifs Thinking World Wonder Fronts Painting Glasses Temples Wonder Of The World

Book:Thirteen bronzes: Alberto Giacometti

Source: Thirteen bronzes: Alberto Giacometti

“The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.”

Men Feels Children Grows Wind Kissing Thee Breathing Dry Temples Silver Old Man Curls

Author:Bear Bryant

“The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.”

Art Use Light Painting Art Is Built Window Temples Significance Sculpture Borrowing

Author:J. G. Holland

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

Father Grace Goodness Constant Temples Reminders

Author:David E. Sorensen

“Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.”

“I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted, and tomorrow I must start for the great temple to listen to the winter songs and sermons preached and sung only there.”

Song Return Tomorrow Mountain Winter Storm Temples Sermons Enchanted Yosemite Bewitched

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.”

Ifs Made Hands Seems Rocks Wall Mountain Treasure Compare Temples Mansions Yosemite

Author:John Muir

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.”

Made Hands Light Seems Beautiful Water Company Feet Sky Rocks Flower Wall Fine Thousand Awful Compare Temples Flood Majesty Brows Meadows Reassuring Grove Yosemite

Author:John Muir

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.”

Made Hands Compare Temples Yosemite

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the first and second Temples. . . We are given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. This is MORE than a state, government and sovereignty----this is national consolidation in a free homeland.”

Giving Firsts States Dream Government Opportunity Given Temples Valleys Palestinian Sovereignty Homeland Transfers State Government Compulsory Consolidation

Author:David

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer or nearly so for thousands of feet, advance beyond their companions in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, seemingly aware, yet heedless, of everything going on about them.”

Giving Made Hands Seems Attitude Feet Rocks Wall Calm Storm Welcome Compare Thoughtful Temples Companion Sheer Repose Majestic Yosemite

Book:The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness

Source: The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness

“I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple”

Used Sleep Rooms Locals Meals Temples Bottles Coke

Author:Steve Jobs

“No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.”

Firsts Seems Church Wonder Lord Cutting Tree Down And Hills Temples Cathedrals Grove Tree Of Life Incense Forests And Trees Arbor Day Inspirational Tree Olive Trees

Book:Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."”

Source: Old portraits and modern sketches

“Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.”

Years Found Growth Tree Thousand Thirds Circles Ruins Temples Magnificent Thousand Years Redwoods

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.”

Men Should May Eye Form Science Moral Sun Plans Youth Taught Brother Hero Mass Rose Temples Atoms Organs Tenderness Sage Worms Restless Enlightening Morrow Poisonous Scientific Truth

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.”

Two Shapes Destruction Temples Columns Altered Lofty Consonants

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Inscribed on the temple of Apollo”

Self Esteem Self Confidence Esteem Temples Apollo Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem

Author:Maya Angelou

“Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.”

Body Your Body Temples Mma

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“All nature is the temple; earth the altar.”

Earth Nature Temples Altars

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.”

Way Film Form Class Issues Comedy Serious Expression University Temples

Author:Tim Heidecker

“Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.”

Men World Night Speak Heaven Cities Hell Fire Four Land Strange Elements Core Symbols Burning Temples Burned Venom Burning Bush Four Elements

Book:A Canticle For Leibowitz

Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz

“The genius of Freemasonry is not our Masonic buildings and temples or the trappings of our organizations. It is not our great charities or community activities. It is not our beautiful rituals or their teachings! It is the 'practice of Freemasonry' by the Freemasons. Yet we cannot practice that which we do not know or understand. Thus Masonic education is the foundation for our Fraternity. Brother Carl H. Claudy in The Master's Book says, '.. one thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.”

“In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old covenant, and even within this model priests were required to abstain from having sex with their wives during the time they served in the Temple. Catholics believe that priests fulfill this Temple relationship ever day - the Mass and the Eucharist mean they are serving in the Temple every day of their ordained lives.”

Believe Mean Father Sex Wife Son Mass Models Catholic Various Temples Priests Serving Judaism Covenant Eucharist Priesthood Father Son Having Sex

Author:Michael Coren

“A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.”

Body Temples Tattoo Graffiti

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The demolition of a Temple is possible at any time, as it cannot walk away from its place.”

Walks Temples Demolition

Author:Aurangzeb

“The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS”

Men Way Should May Country Eye Courses House Strong Built Stones Foundation Sufficient Temples Iron Orthodox Leisure Infidel Inspectors Hatchet Maharashtra

Author:Aurangzeb

“If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .”

Ifs Destroyed Temples

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.”

Ifs Doubt Trouble Information Superiors Temples Puzzles Borrowed Exertion

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.”

Men Has Beens Materials Truth Is Built Concerned Stones Temples Crystals Cement

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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.”

Has Beens Earth Faces Worship Temples Word Of God Idolatry Heathen

Author:Matthew Simpson

“Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.”

Knows Left Term Too Much Meditation Goes On Drink Scene Drug Temples Do You Know Know Me Doing You

Author:John Lennon

“If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.”

Ifs World Prayer Temples Airports Carpet Other Worlds Gateways

Author:George Pendle

“The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.”

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar

“These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God’s Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective.”

Want Should Body Simple Inspire Perspective Honor Temples Biblical Recipes

Author:Jordan Rubin

“My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.”

Heart Doe Communication Depends My Heart Conversation Worship Direct Temples Permit Idols Schedules Conversations With God Hectic Idol Worship Direct Communication

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?”

Ifs Looks Different Hands Stars Interest Rocks Particular Taste Affair Instance Temples Suggestions Hints Reins Hurrying Personal Interest Foibles Guiding Stars

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.”

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton