“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"The Holy Dimension", p. 332
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Gladesmuir from The London Literary Gazette (14th September 1822) Poetical Sketches. Third series - Sketch the Second
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"The Holy Dimension", p. 332
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
“Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
"Kindness and Compassion" p. 52
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
Context: This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Ernest Barnes (1874–1953) English mathematician and clergyman
Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829), Lines of Life
“In ourselves
In our own honest hearts and chainless hands
Will be our safeguard:”
Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854) British politician
Act v.
Ion (1835)
“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Attributed but thus far unverified
Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex
Bk. 2, Pt.. 4, Ch. 3: Sexual Initiation. P. 418 (1974 Vintage edition)
The Second Sex (1949)