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
Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's… — Sandra Cisneros 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
Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much… — Kurt Cobain 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
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
May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just… — Alice Walker 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 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
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
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
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
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
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen… — Adolf Hitler 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
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
The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Do not allow doubt to distract you if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating… — Ronald Reagan 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
Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
