Temple Sacrifices

Famous quotes containing the words temple and/or sacrifices:

“The heathen are come into thine inheritance,
And thy temple have they defiled.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“The merit of those who fill a space in the world’s history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)