Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon…

And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon…

— Bible

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

— Hosea Ballou

For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the…

— Lucretius

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

— Morris Chestnut

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

— Lord Byron

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I…

— Suzanne Curchod

Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,…

— Hannah More

And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy…

— Francis of Assisi

Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go…

— Rabindranath Tagore

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,…

— Dogen

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

— Martin Buber

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that…

— Maria Popova

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth