Top 140 Temple Quotes

The first ‘Gremlins’ was PG because I think it was before Spielberg scarred people with ‘Temple of Doom.’
Ross Duffer
Temple House is starting with clothes, but slowly I plan to extend it to accessories and events.
Rhea Pillai
The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God.
KRS-One
For me, music is God and each song I make is an offering at the temple of music.
M. Jayachandran
Our body is the temple of our spirit.
George W. Romney
I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Unless one is planning to go shopping – basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin – then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up.
David Rakoff
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
Ezra Taft Benson
I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
Gary Cherone
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis.

The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus’ death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John’s own fear and doubt.
Elaine Pagels
I want to get my eight hours and be able to eat good meals and not be sluggish or anything like that. My body is my temple, and I’ve always thought that.
Bryce Harper
Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism’s holiest site.
Elliott Abrams
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead
Sure I’ve done some runs and even toured some amazing places around the world, but this is Stone Temple Pilots!
Jeff Gutt
One of the most beautiful sights in my neighborhood is on High Holy Days when people walk to temple. Not only does this bring the traditional legendary weather, but it gives off a psychic signal to slow down.
George Vecsey
I was a little tomboy, growing up, but we had to go to the library every weekend if we wanted some form of entertainment. And I would gravitate towards the Shirley Temple, Judy Garland section of the library, and I would just pop that in and watch on replay because kids can watch movies over and over again.
Isabela Moner
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
Joyce Carol Oates
I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn’t like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don’t want to be big in front of God.
Preity Zinta
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it’s a publicity stunt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I grew up in West Philly, and I took an acting class at Temple University there. Then, after school, I moved to San Francisco.
Colman Domingo
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage – in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God’s commandments.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.
Ariel Sharon
In his later years, Ramakrishna took up residence at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, from where his radiance extended far, even beyond his death in 1886.
Justin Cartwright
Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple’s rebuilding?
Meir Soloveichik
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl T. Rowan
I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
Madhur Bhandarkar
I find there are a few places where I like to meditate more than in other places. There’s a little Catholic church that I go to, and there’s another temple I go to – there are certain places where I just feel more comfortable.
Michael Keaton
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
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.
Khalil Gibran
I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
Barbara Olson
The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David’s story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea.
John Eldredge
Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one’s life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.
Gordon B. Hinckley
It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
L. Lionel Kendrick
Whenever I can snatch two-three days, I get into the car or a train and head straight for a temple site, mostly Brihadishvara Temple.
Shobana
The Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.
Nicholas Kristof
You may go to the temple for mental peace. But you may be distracted there and forget the purpose of your visit. But this does not happen when you hear good music.
Ilaiyaraaja
I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
Iman
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
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Isaac Mizrahi
The Tambors were conservative Jews, and we attended Tem

The Tambors were conservative Jews, and we attended Temple Beth Shalom at 14th Avenue and Clement Street in San Francisco. We were the only Jewish family for miles. To me, being Jewish meant ‘otherness.’
Jeffrey Tambor
I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.
Ezra Taft Benson
To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God’s chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.
Meir Soloveichik
In Judaism, the temple was the most holy site in the world. But if you extend that argument as a metaphor, and you say ‘The world is a holy place,’ and you’re treating this holy place like a money-lending psycho, then Jesus says, ‘This is hypocrisy!’ and he’d point it out and flip it over.
Jeff Baena
There’s an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they’re mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they’ve built to look like a temple. It’s just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
Jimmy Kimmel
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda
In every character that you play… I mean, I don’t think I’ll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin – I’m not gonna do that.
Ilana Glazer
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.
Charles Taze Russell
No, the Ram Mandir issue is not a political one. It is a national and cultural issue. We would like to see a grand Ram temple come up at the place of the birth of Lord Ram in Ayodhya.
Rajnath Singh
In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, ‘Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?’
Ashwin Sanghi
When you’re on TV, you come into people’s homes. In theater and film, they go to you – to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it’s very different.
Alan Cumming
The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.
Julius Wellhausen
The Big Five is a competition played in the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestra among five Philadelphia-area Division I schools: Saint Joseph’s, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Villanova. ‘The Big Five’ was immensely popular, and rivalries quickly grew to intense proportions.
Jack Ramsay