“ My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. ”
- James Morrow- Copy
- 376
“ Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised? ”
- Joseph Howe- Copy
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“ For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
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“ Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. ”
- Richard Cecil- Copy
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“ When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. ”
- J. Krishnamarti- Copy
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“ Love — that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home — sometimes burns at unholy altars. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 249
“ For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
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“ The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
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“ Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? ”
- Aristophanes- Copy
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“ Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord. ”
- Donald Morgan- Copy
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“ Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth…suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ”
- Julie Burchill- Copy
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“ May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; May the name of the God of Jacob protect you, May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ”
- Augusta Jane Evans- Copy
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“ Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections. ”
- Zacharia- Copy
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