Altars Quotes - Page 15

• I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Religious, Children, Boys

  Source: www.elemente-des-seins.de

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• To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Boys, Meditation, Doe

  Fulton J. Sheen (2004). “The Priest Is Not His Own”, p.69, Ignatius Press

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• When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Fighting, Peaceful

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Reading

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle.

  Steve Munsey

  Offering, Miracle, Spirit

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• The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Beautiful, Mistake, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

  Voltaire

  Father, Book, Atheism

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• As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Skulls, Clothes

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• When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

  Dogen

  Two, Religion, Way

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• With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

  David Shields

  Sacrifice, Plot, Too Much

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.

  Alfred Austin

  Past, Mind, Age

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

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• I was an altar boy and a choir member.

  Cheech Marin

  Boys, Choir, Members

  "'The Perfect Game,' The Perfect Movie". Interview with Mark Armstrong, catholicexchange.com. April 16, 2010.

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• This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

  Martin Buber

  Sacrifice, Possibility, Form

  Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.16, A&C Black

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• Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Wrath, Long, Arlington

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

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• In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

  Hugh Sidey

  Technology, World, May

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• O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Flower, Taken

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.173, Catholic Way Publishing

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• When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Flower, Taken, Son

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• I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Exercise, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.488, Penguin

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• What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Happiness, Joy, Storm

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• Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Promise, Tears, Atheism

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part I, Book VI, Chapter V. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 202, 1802.

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• I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Marching On, Dew, Lamps

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.41

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• Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

  Horace Mann

  Love, Home, Fire

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.215

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• As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Lying, Self, Strange

  "A Forsaken Garden" l. 79 (1878)

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• A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Broken, Tears

  'The Altar', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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