“Your body is the temple of your soul. Your soul is God's temple.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.79
“The body is a temple.”
A lecture at Königsberg (1775), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1946) by H. L. Mencken, p. 1043
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“Make your body the temple of God.”
Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
[Chekki, Danesh A., Religion and Social System of the Vīraśaiva Community, http://books.google.com/books?id=x7JZMy1qntgC&pg=PA48, 1 January 1997, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30251-0, 48–]
“There is but one Temple in the World; and that is the Body of Man.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
Variant translation: There is but one temple in the Universe and that is the Body of Man.
As inscribed on the Library of Congress, quoted in Handbook of the New Library of Congress (1897) by Herbert Small, p. 53
Novalis (1829)
Context: There is but one Temple in the World; and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body.
“Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.”
April Winchell (1960) American voice actor and writer
KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, October 8, 2000, available at AprilWinchell.com http://www.aprilwinchell.com/2000/10/08/kfi-sunday-october-2000/
“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“(Sylvia to her daughter) Rita, your body may be a temple. Mine is a Chevy Vega.”
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.105
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 22
“My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won't do any more than I want to do.”
Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
Paul of Tarsus book First Epistle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 6:19
First Epistle to the Corinthians