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• At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

  Thomas Hughes

  Kings, Lying, Hero

  Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.334, The Floating Press

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• The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's so clear and concise, and it's entertaining in the sense that everyone can relate to it. But you have no doubt what our Lord was trying to communicate in the heart of that story. So the truth was not sacrificed on the altar of entertainment in that case. And it can be.

  Max Lucado

  Drama, Heart, Character

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

  William Ellery Channing

  Learning, Sea, Hills

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. 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.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• 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.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Real, Book, Sacrifice

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• A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.

  Herman Melville

  War, Would Be, Purpose

  Herman Melville (2006). “Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories”, p.75, Bantam Classics

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• ... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

  Mary McCarthy

  Easter, Prayer, Latin

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• There are knives that glitter like altars
  In a dark church
  Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
  To be healed.
  
  There's a woden block where bones are broken,
  Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed

  Charles Simic

  Block, Dark, Knives

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• The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the individual; their tendency is to sink the individual in the mass, to sacrifice his rights, and to immolate him on the altar of some fancied good.

  Angelina Grimke

  Sacrifice, Rights, Organization

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• Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Taste, Truth Is, Danger

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

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• We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, not only life and property, but also private views and preferences in the interests of the common welfare.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  Determination, Sacrifice, Views

  Friedrich von Bernhardi (1914). “Germany and the Next War”

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• Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motto, Let Me, Ready

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.31, Discovery House

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• Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

  Francis of Assisi

  Son, Men, Heaven

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• 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.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Media, Voice

  Cornel West (2005). “Democracy matters: winning the fight against imperialism”, Penguin Classics

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• Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Church, Hats, Robbing

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.233, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Ambition, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Fire, Rome

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

  Dogen

  Two, Religion, Way

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• When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Fighting, Peaceful

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Reading

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle.

  Steve Munsey

  Offering, Miracle, Spirit

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• With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

  David Shields

  Sacrifice, Plot, Too Much

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Religious, Children, Boys

  Source: www.elemente-des-seins.de

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• As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Couple, Book

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• To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Boys, Meditation, Doe

  Fulton J. Sheen (2004). “The Priest Is Not His Own”, p.69, Ignatius Press

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