“ 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
- 2.8K
“ 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
- 243
“ I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles — tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant. ”
- Penelope Lively- Copy
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“ It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. ”
- William Penn- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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 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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“ 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 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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“ Love — that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home — sometimes burns at unholy altars. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
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“ For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 61
“ The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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“ Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ”
- Charles Buck- Copy
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“ As times change, you want to really revere your heredity, but you don't want to be a shrine. to light candles and kneel. ”
- Kitty D’Alessio- Copy
- 564
“ To some Elvis fans, Graceland is the Mecca of pop-culture kitsch, but to many of the 2,500 tourists who arrive there each day… it's the hallowed shrine of a distinctly American saint. ”
- Elaine Robbins- Copy
- 2K
“ If any one of them deserves to be a shrine, it's Paddington. Its departure board reads like a romantic novel, as it flicks its way through Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds and the very heart of England. ”
- Mark Wallington- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it. ”
- Brigham Young- Copy
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“ There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. ”
- Dalai Lama- 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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