The groves were God's first temples.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.
The Druids held the trees as very sacred.
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.