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• 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.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Mean, Blood, Midnight

  "'I was a teenage witch': Tea Party candidate". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. September 21, 2010.

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• he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

  Maria Popova

  Joy, Wonder, Capacity

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading," by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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• My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.

  Iris Apfel

  Mother, Accessories

  "'Iris': New York Review" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 5, 2014.

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

  Craig Groeschel

  Gratitude, Ego, Filled

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• There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

  William Booth

  Fire, Here And There, Different

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

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Sacrifice, Permanent

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• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Eye, Mean, Army

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

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• The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

  Sean O'Casey

  Running, Drama, Inspiration

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.413, Faber & Faber

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• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, Air, Feet

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

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• Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

  Isaac Watts

  Friday, Sacrifice, Blood

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• The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

  Millard Fillmore

  Country, Men, Presidential

  Millard Fillmore (1970). “Millard Fillmore Papers”

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• Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion;.... leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Religious, Teaching, School

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• Do not allow doubt to distract you if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity, you can win a vision of My Reality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Winning, Reality

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• Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Fear, Men, Suffering

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.174, University of Illinois Press

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• The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Views, Swag, Political

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• Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

  Francis of Assisi

  Father, Hands, Thrones

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• In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give,' brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Brother, Giving, Individual

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• 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.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Heart, Acceptance

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• I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar two prizes. This is first my son who is about to be born. The other is my trophy from Fifa, which I want to dedicate to God.

  Kaka

  Son, Player, Years

  "Kaká: A footballer of faith and fable" by Ned Temko, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

  William Penn

  Sacrifice, Fire, Coal

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

  Pope Pius XII

  Two, Should, United

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• Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

  Camille Paglia

  Dream, Sex, Gay

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.24, Vintage

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• Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar

  Jim Elliot

  Father, Fire, Blood

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• 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.

  Kieran Culkin

  Fun, Boys, Directors

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• Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

  Albert Einstein

  Sacrifice, Stupidity, Statistics

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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