Altars Quotes
Altars Quote of the day
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.
For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!
I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!
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 sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .
I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.
