Altars Quote by Countee Cullen Download Open image “Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.” — Countee Cullen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altars Black Glowing Grows Heart My heart Sick Wish
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Dear Heavenly Father, I have a friend who stands as close as a brother, a brave soul. I have seen in him the heart… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
Sill I stand against the death! Am I just a shade? Always I'm awake and in black! Sill I dare to praise the Lord. — Children Of Bodom Copy Share Image
As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“The Old Man, like the French, believed that black was the only appropriate color to display and wear in order to show grief. I… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
You know a multicolor God who created this world is not going to put us in a white heaven. I guarantee you. But we're… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me” — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to or revisit.… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image