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My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory. — Iris Apfel

Very few plays would work well with an altar as a fixed centerpiece. — Kurt Vonnegut

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity. — Lysa TerKeurst

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys. — Dan Rather

20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. — Anonymous

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

When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart,
that man is well-nigh hopeless. — Bob Jones, Sr.

Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts. — Philip Neri

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

Those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar - a star cupped in my hands ... — John Geddes

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar. — St. Jerome

Hanna," I cut in. "I promise to do my best not to motorboat you at the altar. — Christina Lauren

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

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.] — Martial

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

Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar
Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass. — Sappho

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion. — Hosea Ballou

I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid ... — Dana Gould

Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought. — Rick Riordan

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. — Helen Rowland

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. — Sri Aurobindo

Upon any altar a tiny distance separates the worshipped from the sacrificed. — John Morse

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 I
routinely 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

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you. — Aeschylus

I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter. — James Joyce

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end. — John McAfee

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

I who was a house full of bowel movement,
I who was a defaced altar,
I who wanted to crawl toward God
could not move nor eat bread. — Anne Sexton

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

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious. — Mick Jagger

the shewbread to tell of Jesus, the Bread of Life, and the altar of — A.W. Tozer

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

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar. — George Herbert

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

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me. — Cheech Marin

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 know
That 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

If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar. — Jim Elliot

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

[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

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om. — Eden Ahbez

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

Men everywhere were sacrificing at the altar of some beautiful woman in their life. — Bart Hopkins

I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance. — Jessa Crispin