It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured… — Jonathan Goforth Copy Share Image
The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you… — Tommy Tenney 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
No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his… — Jeremy Taylor 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
For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let… — Joseph Hopkinson 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
So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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 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
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
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
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray… — Saint John Chrysostom 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
Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a… — Leonard Cohen 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
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
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
![“The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.” quote by Bonnie Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/bonnie-friedman-26515_altars_the-only-way-the-book-can-be-written-is_2960677.jpg)
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