Altars Quote by Voltaire
“It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.”
![“The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.” quote by Bonnie Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1b3/bonnie-friedman-26515_altars_the-only-way-the-book-can-be-written-is_2960677.jpg)
![“That book of [Melancthon], to my mind, deserves not merely to live as long as books are read, but to take its place in the Church canon; whereas your book, by comparison, struck me as so worthless and poor that my heart went out to you for having defiled your lovely, brilliant flow of language…” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/451/martin-luther-106_books_that-book-of-melancthon-to-my-mind-deser_1378110.jpg)
