Altars Quotes · Page 3

My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.

— Iris Apfel

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.

— Mike Birbiglia

Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

— Bob Jones, Sr

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

— Johnny Kelly

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

— Mary Baker Eddy

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

— Bill Maher

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

— Alexander Pope

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

— Martin Buber

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

— Benjamin Franklin

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

— Joseph Parker

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great…

— William Hazlitt

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]

— Martial

[To W.R. Hearst:] Love is not always created at the altar. Love doesn't need a wedding ring.

— Marion Davies

The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a…

— William Booth

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

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

Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But…

— Isaac Watts

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

Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a…

— Ian MacKaye

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

He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the…

— Peter Chrysologus

Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.…

— William Morley Punshon

I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God.…

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers,…

— Saint Francis de Sales

It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids'…

— Alice-Leone Moats

Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you…

— Ann Mortifee

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings…

— Maria Popova

“The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.”

— Victor Hugo

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

— Dana Gould

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

— William Sloane Coffin

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

— William Penn

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come…

— Aeschylus

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

— Bob Dylan

When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

— William Ellery Channing