| "There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man." »Novalis |
| "Every man is the builder of a temple called his body." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn |
| "Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams." »Robert J. Kibbee |
| "The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." »Carl Rowen |
| "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness." »Dalai Lama |
| "Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "They used to photograph Shirley temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum." »Tallulah Bankhead |
| "If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple." »R. Brokhoff |
| "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." »I. F. Stone |
| "I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there I went to the temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him He was nowhere else to be found." »Jalal ud-Din Rumi |
| "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do." »Anthony Sampson |
| "What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven." »Lucretius |
| ". . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed...." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control" »Joan B. Campbell |
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