Altars Quotes

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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men. — William Hazlitt
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine
He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in… — Peter Chrysologus
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple… — David Brewster
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows… — Robert Mapplethorpe
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
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope
Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon… — Myrtle Reed
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of… — Edmund Burke
The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children… — Wess Stafford
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a… — Luther Standing Bear
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly… — Isaac Watts
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. — Zora Neale Hurston
Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. — Jean Jaures
The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the… — Ansel Adams
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from… — Swami Vivekananda
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
I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the… — Poppy Z. Brite

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