Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Temple going is for the purification of the soul."
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Temples
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Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"The temple is holy because it is not for sale."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else."
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"No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite."
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"And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left."
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"When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life."
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"I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded."
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"The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple."
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"In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone."
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"Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one."
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"The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science."
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"The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized."
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"Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans."
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"I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise."
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"He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye."
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"Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.""
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"He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple."
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"He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot."
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"Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it."
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"To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony."
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"If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed ."
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"Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do."
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"Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices."
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