Altars Quotes

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

— William James

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

— William James

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

— Alexander Pope

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

— Jean Jaures

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

— Thomas Jefferson

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

— Hosea Ballou

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Lysa TerKeurst

“The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.”

— Victor Hugo

[To W.R. Hearst:] Love is not always created at the altar. Love doesn't need a wedding ring.

— Marion Davies

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

— Martial

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

— Aeschylus

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 see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

— Bob Dylan

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

— Dana Gould

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You…

— Ansel Adams

Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar…

— Francis of Assisi

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our…

— John Ruskin

As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and…

— Don Marquis

We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall…

— Grover Cleveland

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he…

— Benjamin Disraeli

When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values…

— Charles Colson

Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible…

— Ayn Rand

When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Trying to stay young, Have…

— Leonard Bernstein

The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.…

— Thomas Jefferson

George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but…

— Daniel Fried

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the…

— Mary McCarthy

For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to…

— Morris Chestnut

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society…

— Caitlin Flanagan

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings…

— Maria Popova

When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too…

— Joseph Parker

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no…

— Arthur Davison Ficke

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart,…

— Gail Sheehy

On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what…

— Saint Augustine

I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad…

— Henry David Thoreau

Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only…

— John of Kronstadt

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian…

— Ulysses S. Grant