Altars Quotes

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

J. D. Greear

Firsts, Platforms

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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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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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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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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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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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All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Nature, Earth, Temples

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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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My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

Lord Byron

Ocean, Mountain

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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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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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Prayer, Yoga, Standing

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

Fernando Pessoa

Soul, Different, Purpose

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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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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

Peter Kreeft

Faith, Inspiration, Two

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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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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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There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.

Swami Vivekananda

Body, Worship, Conscious

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.18, editionNEXT.com

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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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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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I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. 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 good will proclaim the rule of the land.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, War, Believe

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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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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