Altars Quotes
44 quotes by 37 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.
— Jean Jaures
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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