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“The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.”

Sides Christ Middle Devil Angel Conviction Statements Classic Temples Luke Middle Ground Polarization

Book:Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals

Source: Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals

“The light of the sacred prostitute penetrates to the heart of this darkness. . . . she is the consecrated priestess, in the temple, spiritually receptive to the feminine power flowing through her from the Goddess, and at the same time joyously aware of the beauty and passion in her human body.”

Humans Heart Body Light Passion Darkness Sacred Temples Feminine Goddess Human Body Penetrate Receptive Priestesses

Author:Marion Woodman

“It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.”

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.”

Wells Culture Spirituality Church Darkness Serious Happenings Catholic Buddhist Temples Orthodox Emerging Orthodox Church

Author:Dan Kimball

“Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.”

“In the fall of 1988, I worshipped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three images of the Buddha, feeling that the smoke could carry my prayers heavenward. It was for me a holy moment for I was certain that I was kneeling on holy ground....I will not make any further attempt to convert the Buddhist, the Jew, the Hindu or the Moslem. I am content to learn from them and to walk with them side by side toward the God who lives, I believe, beyond the images that bind and blind us.”

Believe Moments Feelings Certain Fall Three I Believe Sides Prayer Walks Air Holy Blind Filled Jew Smell Buddhist Smoke Temples Incense Kneeling Holy Ground

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Your body is you. That's your temple. So, eating wisely helps you function for the day. If you want to look good and feel good, you gotta eat good. What you put into your temple, man, is very important. I learned that later on in life, but I started putting that into practice. I'm not perfect in my eating. I just try to live healthily, and to take care of myself so that during this lifetime I can live good.”

Ifs Men Want Feels Trying Looks I Can Important Helping Body Care Perfect Practice Eating Function Lifetime Take Care Your Body Feel Good Temples Not Perfect I'm Not Perfect

Author:Common

“I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.”

Writing Book Body Kids Spirit Clean Your Body Temples Why Not Covered Tattoo

Author:Bill Ayers

“To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.”

Ifs Believe Past Succeed Credit Inevitable Temples

Author:W. S. Merwin

“Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.”

Ifs Treats Temples

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!”

Thinking Humans Body Seems Beautiful Human Beings Too Much Treats Relate Temples

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades.”

Three Games University Decades Boards Addresses Temples Philadelphia Commencement Trustees Alma Mater

Author:Chaka Fattah

“Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University`s board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees they gave him.”

Has Beens Two Names Building College Degrees Bills University Various Boards Temples Dozen Scholarship Colleges And Universities Honorary

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.”

Should Ideas Mother Grew Grew Up Dancing Indian Classic Dancer Temples Ballet Great Idea Madras

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as "What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John's Gospel? How does the theme of the temple work itself out across the entire Bible?" Both approaches are legitimate; both are important. They are mutually complementary.”

Doe Important Asks Sin Achieve Approach Crosses Theology Theme Temples Attributes Biblical Prophecy Systematic Complementary Attributes Of God

Author:D. A. Carson

“I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.”

Years Long Reason Jobs Political Twenties Seven University Thirty Temples Seven Years Philadelphia Scarves

Author:Gerald Stern

“I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.”

Thinking Should Writing Character Pain Next Temples Farmers

Author:Kevin Moffett

“One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through the '70s and '80s that I made a living. And very rarely have I had to take another job. And now it's impossible for anybody coming up to make such a living. They've pissed in the temple, you know?”

Knows Writing Years Made Jobs Class Impossible Middle Temples Middle Class 80s

Author:Richard Meltzer

“Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.”

College University Temples Harvard Philadelphia Dropouts

Author:Paul F. Tompkins

“I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school. I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.”

“A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.”

World Should Firsts Whole Beautiful Three Powerful Break Saws Week Mines First Time Intelligent Whole Life Temples Good Friend Egypt Tombs Nile

Author:Alicia Keys

“I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.”

People Knows Wanted Type Musical Theatre Dancer Temples Performers Old People Musical Theatre

Author:Erica Schroeder

“I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.”

Thinking Different Kids Parent Teach Indian Holiday Temples Take Me Festivals American Indian

Author:Mindy Kaling

“In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.”

“When we moved to Florida we experienced it on a communal level, in a more structured religious setting, with temples and different worships. That sense of community is very much interconnected with music for us, and thinking of music as this living organism that offers a space of mystical participation with forces outside yourself.”

Thinking Different Force Community Religious Space Levels Offers Worship Moved Setting Settings Temples Florida Organisms Participation Mystical Interconnected Living Organisms

Author:Taraka Larson

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

Way Break Audience Music Is Response Temples Barriers Performers Breaking Down

Author:Taraka Larson

“Here, the certain temple rule, this seems to me to have a certain responsibility to look after the well-being of society and look after Buddhism and culture. I consider these part of the practice of spirituality. There is no competition between spiritual practice and party politics. That is outdated. We already, since 2001, have elected political position. My position is semi-retired. I am looking forward to complete retirement.”

“Often, one discovery leads to interest in another. After the Dauphin's heart had undergone DNA testing and was placed in the crypt at St. Denis, I think people wanted some closure to the story about the fate of the royal couple's only child who survived the gruesome Temple Prison. I know I did.”

People Thinking Knows Heart Children Stories Wanted Interest Fate Couple Discovery Prison Temples Survived Royal Dna Testing Closure Only Child

Author:Susan Nagel

“The goal isn't to be restrictive or tight about what passes through the altar (your mouth) and into the temple (your body). It's to create sustainable and consistent energy for every deserving cell in your body. That, my friends, is true love.”

Body Energy Goal Mouths My Friends Your Body Cells Consistent Temples Altars Deserving

Author:Kris Carr

“India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is very visible. There are lots of temples, lots of Islamic centers, lots of gurdwaras, and lots of teachers.”

Mean Culture Spirituality Religious Teacher India Depth Surface Visible Islamic Temples Religious Life

Author:Diana L. Eck

“There God tells us exactly what is going to happen and scripture tells us that there is going to come a world leader who will initially bring overtures of peace. He will help the Jewish people rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. He will have a new economic system where you don't buy or sell without his mark. Initially, for some, it will look like a good deal because there will be peace, as I said.”

People World Looks Said Helping Happens Deals Leader Economic Mark Sells Scripture Temples Jerusalem Economic Systems World Leader

Author:Greg Laurie

“I don't define myself by my body's ability to execute gorgeous asana anymore. I'm all about taking care of my temple and understanding that its requirements change with age and time.”

Body Care Age Understanding Ability Temples Requirements Gorgeous Asana

Author:Kathryn Budig

“The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace. Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.”

Should Facts Earth Nations Eternal Jew League Temples Representatives Right Place Pilgrim Geneva Ginsberg Zion League Of Nations Eternal Peace

Author:Ahad Ha'am

“I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.”

Stills Animal Theology Temples Infancy

Author:Andrew Linzey

“I loved him [Ke Huy Quan as Short-Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom] - everyone loved him when I saw the film. Now I'm a grown-up and I watch it I'm not so sure - he's so loud. He yells for the entire film.”

Film Watches Saws Rounds Loud Temples Doom Indiana

Author:Taika Waititi

“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.”

Mean Depends Praying Temples

Author:Indira Gandhi

“We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?”

Giving Looks Doe Body Inspiration Past Young Girl Sex Messages Males Temples Why Not Bad Things Trapped Past Life Lama Lineage

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.”

Knows Christ Answers Violence Temples Usual Impatience Sellers

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It's when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.”

Years Next Fun Term Church Secret Cities Unique Towns Locals Evolve Temples Clothings Prosperous Next Year Resilient Mosques Local Church Fundraiser

Author:Dar Williams

“Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.”

Men Wells Fall White Knowing Ready Destroyed Temples White Man Rubble Samson

Author:Malcolm X

“I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.”

Littles Environment Late Uncomfortable Temples Testament Judaism New Testament

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.”

Firsts School Sides Church New York Grew Grew Up Labor East Reform Ministers Department Temples Strict Chairman Dutch Michigan Organizer East Side

Author:Nat Hentoff

“In my work, there is a lot of storytelling. The storytelling is not a new thing. Back in the [Howard] Thurston days, the [Harry] Houdini days, the [Harry] Blackstone days, it was stories, but the stories were, "We're going to the Egyptian temples, and we're going to vanish the Prince of Thebes," and, "On my last trip to the Orient ..."”

Stories Lasts One Day Storytelling Temples New Things Egyptian Houdini

Author:Judd Apatow

“I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.”

People Believe Littles Book Found I Believe Memories Cities Taken Alive I Believe In Treasure Destroyed Temples Attachment Our Memories Jerusalem Coughing

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I take really good care of myself. I promised myself long ago that I would never miss a hunting season, never poison my sacred temple with drugs, alcohol, tobacco or bad food.”

Long Care Missing Drug Seasons Sacred Alcohol Poison Temples Hunting Long Ago Tobacco Bad Food Hunting Season

Author:Ted Nugent

“If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.”

Ifs Way Form Realizing Lord Seeing Flower Listening Hearing Senses Temples Deities Mantras Incense

Author:George Harrison

“Krishna consciousness was especially good for me because I didn't get the feeling that I'd have to shave my head, move into a temple, and do it full time. So it was a spiritual thing that just fit in with my life-style. I could still be a musician, but I just changed my consciousness, that's all.”

Stills Feelings Spiritual Moving Consciousness Style Changed Fit Musician Temples Krishna Life Style

Author:George Harrison

“I've always enjoyed prasadam much more when I've been at the temple, or when I've actually been sitting with Prabhupada, than when somebody's brought it to me. Sometimes you can sit there with prasadam and find that three or four hours have gone by and you didn't even know it. Prasadam really helped me a lot, because you start to realize "Now I'm tasting Krishna."”

Knows Sometimes Three Realizing Hours Gone Four Sitting Enjoyed Temples Krishna Tasting

Author:George Harrison

“For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the Lord Himself. It's the one institution that is ceremoniously performed by priesthood authority in the temple [and] transcends this world. It is of such profound importance... such a core doctrine of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the very purpose of the creation of this earth. One hardly can get past the first page of Genesis without seeing that very clearly.”

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.”

Thinking Men Kind Art Soul Helping Doors Thirds Madness Inspired Possession Temples Delicate Sane Muse Virgins Madmen Rivalry Frenzy

Author:Plato

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