Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured… — Jonathan Goforth Copy Share Image
When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child.… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let… — Joseph Hopkinson Copy Share Image
So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata,… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
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