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• In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

  Alice Walker

  Light, Cost, Fierce

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.174, New Press, The

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• Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Being come together in the same place, let there be one prayer, one supplication, one mind, one hope, in love and in joy undefiled. There is one Jesus Christ, than Whom nothing is more excellent. Therefore all should run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from the Father, and is with and has gone to one.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Running, Jesus

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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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• 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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• It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Good Man, Doe

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• When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it (as on the day of my ordination to the priesthood), and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does calm return, but my body seems to be annihilated; the only true life begins, the life of that which is intangible.

  Leonid Feodorov

  Reality, Giving, Joy

  Exarch Leonid Feodorov, Bridgebuilder Between Rome and Moscow" by Paul Mailleux, (p. 166), 1964.

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• Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Children, War

  "Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll" by Robert Green Ingersoll, C. P. Farrell, (p. 341), 1914.

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• We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Sacrifice, Men

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• I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Winning, Past

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• Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Flower, Heart

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• I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

  Tom Waits

  Years, Rays, Jukebox

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.

  Louie Giglio

  Religious, Doors, Church

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• I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Kids

  "Comedy Central Presents / Mike Birbiglia: 2". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Horse, Knowledge

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• If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Church, Pieces

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature”, p.119

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• They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Past, Rights

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• Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.

  William R. Walker

  Sacrifice, Faithful, Pioneers

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• I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it.

  George Carlin

  Summer, Running, School

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Business, Communication

  Charles Lamb (1943). “A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia”

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• And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Air, Glowing

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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• The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.

  Michael Huffington

  Spiritual, Jobs, Order

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I guess I'm an atheist. But I would say I have very good relationships with the priests that I grew up with. I was an altar boy growing up, and the men of God in my life have always been really lovely, intelligent, well-informed, kind men. So I feel very loyal to their beliefs as much as anything else.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Atheist, Growing Up, Intelligent

  "Chris O'Dowd on How to Deal with a Hangover". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I know it's the comedian's instinct to say, "Do it, man, nothing's off-limits! It's cool, bro!" I don't know if that's the answer for me. "Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?" I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

  Bo Burnham

  Fall, Miscarriage, Men

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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