Altar Quotes
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Altar Quotes & Sayings
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My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.
— Iris Apfel
My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.
— Lysa TerKeurst
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The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.
— Charles Williams
In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.
— Hugh Sidey
Stillness is the altar of spirit.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
— Albert Einstein
I'll meet you at the altar" "I'll be the one in white!
— Stephenie Meyer
My story! Didn't you know? I was the poor stupid groom who was jilted at the altar."These Lines of Mehendi — Sumeetha Manikandan
I was not a religious man, but if I were, the woods would be my church, the mountaintops my altar.
— Tom Ryan
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
— Simeon Strunsky
Everywhere, wherever you may find yourself, you can set up an altar to God in your mind by means of prayer.
— John Chrysostom
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
— St. Jerome
May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.
— Laura Teresa Marquez
The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.
— William James
I have sworn upon the altar of god ...
— Thomas Jefferson
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!
— Joseph Hopkinson
The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.
— David O. McKay
Altar to God is the human mind. To "desecrate the altar" is to fill it with non-loving thoughts.
— Marianne Williamson
And in each corner of my soul there's an altar to a different god.
— Fernando Pessoa
In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
— Fernando Pessoa
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
— Helen Rowland
Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
— Benjamin Franklin
Mrs. Plutarski is such a pill to me. You'd think Iroutinely crapped on the altar, the way she treats me. — Kristan Higgins
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No longer a victim. I broke an altar with my werewolf lover. How fitting, how utterly empowering. Broke that bitch!
— Kresley Cole
The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
— Austin O'Malley
Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
David christened it: "This is the house of Yahzeh ha-Elohim [1 ahveh of the Gods], and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel" (xxii, 1)
— Joseph Wheless
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
— Peter Akinola
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
— Mother Jones
When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.
— Saint John Chrysostom
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
— Queen Victoria
I was starting to understand why the blood of a thousand virgins had been sacrificed at his altar of sexual prowess.
— Penny Reid
Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation.
— Richard Gwynn
Every altar worth its salt must have an offered sacrificial Lamb, a consuming burning fire, an ascending smoke, a priest and the receiver (God)
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Yea! for our roses fade, the world is wild;But there, beside the altar, there, is rest.
-from Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration — Ernest Dowson
Soldier= sacrifice on the altar of power
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everything in man should halt in awe ... Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
— Francis Of Assisi
The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.
— Saint John Chrysostom
I was an altar boy and a choir member.
— Cheech Marin
I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.
— A. J. Jacobs
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
— Thomas Huxley
I think if love is real, and headed toward the altar, the sex part-within reason-can wait.
— Ellen Hopkins
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
— William Penn
Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.
— John Kasich
May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.
— Countee Cullen
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
— Tennessee Williams
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
— Margaret Mitchell
She should submit to him in love and without fear, giving her body to him like a holy offering and making their bed an altar.
— Tiffany Reisz
So we surrender to stupidity, do we? Freedom of speech is sacrificed at the altar of manufactured rage.
— David Mitchell
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
— William Ellery Channing
When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.
— Lee Daniels
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.
— Silius Italicus
And when you spoke to me, I did not knowThat to my life's high altar came its priest. — Sara Teasdale
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
— Stephen Fry
gazing toward the cross above the altar,
— E.J. Simon
When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.
— Craig Groeschel
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
— David Shields
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
— Charles Buck
Thy fatal shafts unerring move;I bow before thine altar, Love! — Tobias Smollett
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Unbridled truth often gets sacrificed on the altar of the greater good.
— Robert J. Crane
I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice.
— Michael Keaton
Your heart is your temple.
— Suzy Kassem
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
— Robert Charles Wilson
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[To W.R. Hearst:] Love is not always created at the altar. Love doesn't need a wedding ring.
— Marion Davies
When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.
— Joseph Parker
Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.
— Francis Of Assisi
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form ...
— Martin Buber
So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.
— Brandon Sanderson
I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.
— Jessa Crispin