Quote by A.J. Smith Download Open image ““The priest and the altar. The priest and the altar.”” — A.J. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“And when you spoke to me, I did not know That to my life's high altar came its priest.” — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Upon any altar a tiny distance separates the worshipped from the sacrifice.” — John Morse Copy Share Image
“... pissing on the altar is still a way of paying homage to the Church” — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“We have worshipped at the altar of inclusion when we were built to worship at the altar of the only living God.” — Lisa-Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“Upon any altar a tiny distance separates the worshipped from the sacrificed.” — John Morse Copy Share Image
“Like a whore? Here? Before your God? Here, bent over his holy altar?” — Natasha Knight Copy Share Image
“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Mind is the altar, mind is the temple, mind is the lord and mind is the gospel.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The priest's work, the priest's service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God's desire at Sinai - that everybody would understand… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“To see Bburke chug a beer was to witness a small act of unmitigated perfection. One could hope to be able to chug a… — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Bburke used to, whenever he went to the city to catch a Yankees game, throw his money around to every homeless man on the street, feeling it was the right thing to do; except one time he did that and he got to the stadium and realized he didn’t have enough money for the Bud Light tall boy he always… — A.J. Smith Copy Share
“He blurred his thens and his nows—in a fantastic drunken distortion—with the thisness and thenness of now and before, re-spectively; wisps of Bburke with Jane infiltrated him without her, the way dry oars still taste of salt. And it made Bburke trace Jane’s silhouette in his bedsheets with his lips, wondering if his sadness and loneliness was of any import… — A.J. Smith Copy Share
“I will look white again like a disease, you will see my whiteness and feel dis-ease, lovers alone wear sunlight, ee’s said.” — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“But love will only take you so far. The other 99% is not being a dickhead.” — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“As he began to understand himself more and more (to the extent at least that any man truly understands himself), he recognized that his… — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Loving God alone, we unify our nature in single constancy; God himself kindles a love that burns but never consumes.” — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Liquor can be the dogmaless version of flagellation in this way. It can be self-punitive and self-restorative. Liquor is how a man reminds himself… — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
