Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability. — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass. — Sappho Copy Share Image
A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science. — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it,… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the… — Peter Chrysologus Copy Share Image
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Therefore run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you… — Ann Mortifee Copy Share Image
It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids'… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image