Quotes about Temple
I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.
— Gordon Hinckley
A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.
— Gordon Hinckley
I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.
— Gordon Hinckley
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
— Gordon Hinckley
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
— Joseph Wirthlin
There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.
— Gordon Hinckley
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.
— Ezra Taft Benson
In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
— Ezra Taft Benson
They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.
— Alice Hoffman
Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.
— Alice Hoffman