Top 409 Altar Quotes & Sayings

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to the altar and saying, "Look at those beautiful stones we trimmed!" We merely need to accept the work that God has done for us in Christ. The object of His restrictions is to help us see how wonderful He is and to spend the rest of our lives rendering true worship to Him.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.

Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.

God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.

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 of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.

I grew up going to Catholic school and I was altar boy even going back to the days where the altar boys had to learn the Latin clergy for mass.

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition.

My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.

So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the 'sacrifice unto the Lord... of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving 'away all [our] sins' in order to 'know God' (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him.

The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause.

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

I'm a lapsed altar boy.

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

There was a time I worshipped at the altar of Rudy Martzke.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.

When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. …We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

I'll meet you at the altar" "I'll be the one in white!

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!

Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.