Quotes about Temples
Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 49:32
As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.
- Joseph Wirthlin
We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.
- Thomas Monson
Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.
- Thomas Monson
The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally.
- Gordon Hinckley
Thousands of ordinary people were part of this metropolis, but their homes would have been perishable wattle and thatch, stuccoed with lime and mud. Every trace of their living has returned to the earth now, except for the limestone temples of art and worship. The things made of ambition, which rise higher than daily bread.
- Barbara Kingsolver
But, nevertheless, we do not build temples, and ordain priests, rites, and sacrifices for these same martyrs; for they are not our gods, but their God is our God.
- St. Augustine
The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.
- Thomas Monson
Each of our temples is an expression of our testimony that life beyond the grave is as real and as certain as is our life here on earth.
- Thomas Monson
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
- Mark Twain
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
- Gordon Hinckley
The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- James Faust