Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar…

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

— Marion Davies

The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre,…

— Jane Porter

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