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
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease,… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
I was debating whether to do Legally Blonde, and I saw this interview with Gloria Steinem about how important Goldie Hawn's role… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to… — Leonid Feodorov Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child.… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The goal isn't to be restrictive or tight about what passes through the altar (your mouth) and into the temple (your body).… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
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