Altars Quote by Martin Buber Download Open image “This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...” — Martin Buber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altars Endless Endless possibilities Form Possibility Sacrifice
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 Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice is to lose something we can see in order to gain something that we can’t. And therein lies the problem. First that we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“Man wills to make of earth, not one Jerusalem but two; this sacramental blood de- clears the double mind by which he wills to… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I. — Martin Buber 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
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
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image