All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. — William James Copy Share Image
In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science. — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
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
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
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
Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
