Altars Quotes

• I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Faith Religion

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• Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

  Tommy Tenney

  God, Fall, Sacrifice

  Tommy Tenney (1999). “The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee”, p.65, Destiny Image Publishers

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• May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

  Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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

  J. D. Greear

  Firsts, Platforms

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• All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Nature, Earth, Temples

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• If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

  Jim Elliot

  Sheep, Remember, Pastures

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• The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.

  William Booth

  Heart, Fire, Watches

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• For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.

  Wayne Muller

  Fire, Years, Circles

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• Be creative. Don`t be worried about what you are doing - one has to do many things - but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then your work becomes worship. Then whatsoever you do is a prayer. And whatsoever you do is an offering at the altar.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Offering, Creative

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• Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

  Jean Jaures

  Past, Fire, History

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• Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you have. Do not wait another day.
  Lay your hours and intellect, your heart and passion, upon the altar of self-transformation and collective awakening. Begin now: pray, believe, trust and act.

  Ann Mortifee

  Believe, Passion, Heart

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Believe, Land

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Humility, Sacrifice, Wish

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• You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Mean, Journey

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Different, Purpose

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• A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

  Beth Moore

  Christian, Pain, Passion

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• It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Miracle, Triumph

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• Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

  Philip Neri

  Heart, Sacrifice, Holocaust

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.8, St Athanasius Press

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• Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.

  Francis of Assisi

  Son, Men, Hands

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• The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

  Austin O'Malley

  Devil, Not Afraid

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• My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sacrifice, Guilty, Portions

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• God is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere, but in His Sacrament of the Altar He is as present actually and really as my soul within my body; in His Sacrifice daily offered as really as once offered on the Cross

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Sacrifice, Air, Soul

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• Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Believe, Catholic

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• The Eucharist completes the restoration begun in the Crib. Make merry therefore on this beautiful day, on which the sun of the Eucharist is rising. Let your gratitude never separate the Crib from the Altar, the Word made flesh from the God-Man made Bread of Life in the Most Blessed Sacrament

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Blessed

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