Altar Quotes
235 quotes by 184 authors
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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
— Charles Buck
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I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered…
— Guillermo del Toro
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Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from…
— Adolf Hitler
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Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing…
— Mother Teresa
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
— St. Jerome
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What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him, you will give…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
— Peter Kreeft
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Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the…
— Stephen Crane
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and…
— Christine O'Donnell
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A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed…
— Beth Moore
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home -…
— Eden Ahbez
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There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not…
— Cyprian
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The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
— Millard Fillmore
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Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Do not allow doubt to distract you if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity, you can…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove…
— Aneurin Bevan
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Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us…
— Francis of Assisi
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In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things…
— Neal A. Maxwell
Who Wrote These Altar Quotes
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