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• I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be of comfort and hope to those who confide in him with faith and love; they look on him as the Emmanuel, God with us, who wished to dwell amongst us: his heart in our heart

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Heart, Soul

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• Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at table and recreation (no hurry here either). But isn't it strange how those same Christians find themselves in such a rush and want to hurry the priest, in their anxiety to shorten the time devoted to the most holy sacrifice of the altar?

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Sacrifice, Anxiety

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• If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.

  David Brewster

  God, Faith, Prayer

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• The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Prayer, Meditation

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.211, Ignatius Press

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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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• 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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• When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

  John Ruskin

  Home, Men, Dwelling

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.340

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• [A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

  H. G. Wells

  Eggs, Light, Church

  'Boon' (1915) ch. 4

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• When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

  Jonathan Cain

  Girlfriend, Children, Blessing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Wine, Reality, Suffering

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”

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• I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.

  Dana Gould

  Boys, Hands, Catholic

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• Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Building Up, Facts

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

  Ron Paul

  War, People, Liberty

  "Bush’s Wars". www.counterpunch.org. September 21, 2001.

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• A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Idols, Vices

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• What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Brother, Inspiration

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• You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him, you will give to Him holy kisses, you will wash Him with your tears, you will carry Him within you like Mary Most Holy.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Inspiration, Kissing

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• Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

  Stephen Crane

  Wisdom, Children, Wall

  Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

  John Kasich

  Trade, Free Trade

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

  Bob Dylan

  Waiting, Age, Rising

  "Song: "The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar" ("Shot of Love")". 1981.

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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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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• Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

  Myrtle Reed

  Taken, Men, Effort

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• This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

  Lawrence Block

  Real, Flames, Parking Meters

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• I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Boys, Age, Window

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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