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
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
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not… — William Booth 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
I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say,… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is,… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified,… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for… — Samuel Francis Smith Copy Share Image
I know it's the comedian's instinct to say, "Do it, man, nothing's off-limits! It's cool, bro!" I don't know if that's the… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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