Altar Quotes

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

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

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

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

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at it. Then, I started meeting girls and I'm like 'You know, maybe I shouldn't be a Priest.'

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

I'm a lapsed altar boy.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.