Altars Quotes

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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. — William James
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns… — Aeschylus
For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone. — Wayne Muller
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
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,… — Lord Byron
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
Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you… — Edwin Arlington Robinson
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure… — Edgar Allan Poe
And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain! — John Greenleaf Whittier
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. — William Hazlitt
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black… — Sylvia Plath
I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a… — Ayn Rand
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear… — Zora Neale Hurston
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to… — Tom Robbins
The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand… — Poppy Z. Brite
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture of their minds, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. — Victor Hugo
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in… — Hannah More
Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight. — Edmund Smith
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their… — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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