Altars Quote by Kate Langley Bosher

Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact…

— Tana French

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

— Georges Bataille

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

— George Bernard Shaw

“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We…

— Okakura Kakuzo

“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being…

— Michael Pollan

Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the…

— Adolf Hitler

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

— Abraham Lincoln

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up to God in new ways. People of…

— Doug Pagitt

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

— Michael Harner

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

— Anonymous