“ 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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“ Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car. ”
- Laurence Peter- Copy
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“ No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools — no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class — no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- H.H. the Dalai Lama- Copy
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“ The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make — not just on your wedding day, but over and over again — and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. ”
- Barbara De Angelis- Copy
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“ 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
- 3.4K
“ Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ”
- Edward Lee Thorndike- Copy
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“ There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.2K
“ They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. ”
- Tallulah Bankhead- Copy
- 3K
“ Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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- Copy
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“ A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
- 2.6K
“ And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- 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
- 1.5K
“ Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Know well that a hundred holy temples of wood and stone have not the value of one understanding heart. ”
- Zoroaster- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. ”
- Marguerite Yourcenar- Copy
- 2.1K
“ One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. ”
- Carl Rowan- Copy
- 930
“ The most minor 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- Copy
- 504
“ The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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