And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass. — Sappho Copy Share Image
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the… — Peter Chrysologus Copy Share Image
Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you… — Ann Mortifee Copy Share Image
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it,… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will… — Steve Munsey Copy Share Image
Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone. — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade. — John Kasich 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
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
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
Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. — David Shields 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
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
When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
