I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child. — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land! — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. — Silius Italicus Copy Share Image
The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed.… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the… — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a… — Kenneth Rand Copy Share Image
We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the… — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter;… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I guess I'm an atheist. But I would say I have very good relationships with the priests that I grew up with.… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
God is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere, but in His Sacrament of the Altar He is as present… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Thank God for 9/11. Thank God that, five years ago, the wrath of God was poured out upon this evil nation. America,… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Eucharist completes the restoration begun in the Crib. Make merry therefore on this beautiful day, on which the sun of the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“I offer you my mouth— Let me marry my lips to the tops of your thighs, I kneel between your legs. I… — Chantelle Ann Copy Share Image
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of… — Matthew Coon Come Copy Share Image
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
