Altar Quotes

235 quotes by 184 authors

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone… — Fulton J. Sheen
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher… — Swami Vivekananda
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and… — David O. McKay
Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they… — Irving Stone
In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god. — Fernando Pessoa
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows… — William Booth
We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness… — Grover Cleveland
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm… — Okakura Kakuzo
The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He… — Franz Liszt
The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy. — Bill Maher
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe… — Hugo Chavez
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. — Tom Waits
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy? — Arthur Schopenhauer
We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed… — Eric Butterworth
It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we… — William Barclay
I was an altar boy and a choir member. — Cheech Marin
The Eucharist completes the restoration begun in the Crib. Make merry therefore on this beautiful day, on which the sun of the Eucharist is rising.… — Peter Julian Eymard
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples… — Lucretius

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