Spiritual Sanctuary Quotes

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

… hedge or wall of Separation between the Garden of the Church and the Wilderness of the World

If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Every church, however local, is holy ground, and equally so.

Don't Politicize Churches! Houses Of Worship Should Not Be Part Of A Political Machine

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God’s Spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

. . . 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.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

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 the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

Home is the definition of God.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.