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

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Attitude, Activity, My Attitude

  Twitter post from Mar 02, 2016

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• 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!

  Mother Jones

  Children, Cities, Profit

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• 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.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Glasses, Smell

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.10, Anchor

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• 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.

  Maria Monk

  Views, Numbers, Dresses

  Maria Monk (1837). “Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal”, p.44

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• When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are troops of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Believe, Angel, Men

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• Stillness is the altar of spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spirit, Stillness

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• Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Girl, Dream, Couple

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Tana French

  Cutting, Sacrifice, May

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask: what do you love? ... I know who I am, she thought, taking his hand and turning to the altar. I am Tatiana. And I believe in, and hope for, and love Alexander for life.

  Paullina Simons

  Believe, Who I Am, Hands

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• I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

  Donald Miller

  Love You, Giving, Risk

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.150, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Imagination

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.97, 谷月社

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• That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.

  C.C. Hunter

  Sleep, Ducks, Smell

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• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Soul, Unhappy

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.709, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jesus, Heart, People

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• Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.

  Hannah More

  Time, Art, Space

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

  Mark Twain

  Change, Science, Religion

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Hate, Ocean

  "The Quest for Peace and Justice". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1964.

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• Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

  Edmund Smith

  Life, Sight, Victim

  Edmund Smith (1719). “The Works of ...: Containing I. Phaedra and Hippolitus, II. A Poem on Thr Death of Mr. Philips, III. Bodleian Speech, IV Pocochius, To which is Prefix'd”, p.9

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

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Peace, Peacefulness, Conditions

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• Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

  Mark Twight

  Sacrifice, Effort, Sometimes

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• The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

  Ansel Adams

  Knowing, Earth, Unions

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• Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of great joy into all the earth?

  Lottie Moon

  Memories, Race, Joy

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.224, Mercer University Press

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