Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

— Martin Buber

“...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar…

— John Geddes

There was a time I worshipped at the altar of Rudy Martzke.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I'm a lapsed altar boy.

— Guillermo del Toro

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

— Silius Italicus

We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to…

— Max Anders

God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

— Bible

“Sacrifice your fear on the altar of your dreams.”

— Barbara Van Tuyl

“It doesn’t really matter what altar you’re being sacrificed on, it’s gonna sting either way.”

— Angela Roquet

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French…

— George Saunders

“The quickest way to alter an altar is not with a hammer, or even religious deconstruction, but with a typo.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Carter and Hypatia and Patsy Cline. Next to it,…

— Carmen Maria Machado

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body…

— John Wycliffe

“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for…

— Dickens, Charles