Altars Quote by Hosea Ballou Download Open image “Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.” — Hosea Ballou ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altars Duty Obedience Offering Resignation Responsibility Sacrifice
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage. — Pericles Copy Share Image
We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“When we give away our rights and surrender our wills, when we give our obedience, our return is "good measure, pressed down, shaken together,… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom,… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou 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
