The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
We have to maintain the Krishnasthali.
There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.
I have visited Ajmer Sharif Dargah a couple of times before, and each time, it fills my heart with so much love and gratitude.
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
As the heart in the midst of the body, so is Jerusalem situated in the midst of our inhabited earth
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.
Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
I found Jerusalem to be a tourist trap. I hope that I don't offend anyone by saying that.
Jaipur is the hometown of my religious guruji. It has a special place in my heart, and I have been here several times.
We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.
The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.
In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being
The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.
