“The temple is holy because it is not for sale.”

— Ezra Pound, The Cantos

Canto XCVII
Source: The Cantos

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American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

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Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) British writer

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“Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.”

Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist

Gleanings Among the Sheaves, Holiness, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 369.

“Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

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“One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples.... We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.”

Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Work Goes On, Ensign, May 2001, 1.

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own.”

Paul of Tarsus book First Epistle to the Corinthians

1 Corinthians 6:19
First Epistle to the Corinthians

“The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 4, p. 41

“From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of 'a holy war' of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilizations, wiped out entire races. Mahmoud Ghazni was an early example of Muslim ruthlessness, burning in 1018 of the temples of Mathura, razing Kanauj to the ground and destroying the famous temple of Somnath, sacred to all Hindus. His successors were as ruthless as Ghazni: 103 temples in the holy city of Benaras were razed to the ground, its marvelous temples destroyed, its magnificent palaces wrecked.”

Alain Daniélou (1907–1994) French historian, musicologist, Indologist and expert on Shaivite Hinduism

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“20 Proposition. Gods Temple, although in heaven, is also taken for his holy Church among his heavenly Elect upon the earth, and metonymicè for the whole contents thereof.”

John Napier (1550–1617) Scottish mathematician

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

“When the imperial army was encamping at Mathura, a holy city of the Hindus, the state of affairs with regard to temples of Mathura was brought to the notice of His Majesty. Thus, he ordered the faujdar of the city, Abdul Nabi Khan, to raze to the ground every temple and to construct big mosques (over their demolished sites).”

Aurangzeb (1618–1707) Sixth Mughal Emperor

Mathura (Uttar Pradesh). Futuhat-i-‘Alamgiri of Ishwardas Nagar, translated into English by Tanseem Ahmad, Delhi, 1978. p. 82
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