"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists." — Joseph de Maistre

More Altar Quotes

This quote is filed under Altar Quotes, one of 235 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler
• Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to… — Annie Besant
• For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar… — Aeschylus
• Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both… — John Ruskin
• The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be… — Joseph de Maistre
• Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so… — Kurt Cobain
• Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured… — Margaret Mary Alacoque
• Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon
• The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to… — Thomas Jefferson
• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the… — Abraham Lincoln
• Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for… — Winston Churchill

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