Altars Quotes - Page 10

• 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 If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.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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• 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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• We hail the return of the day of thy birth,
  Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans
  Where men from the farthest dominions of earth
  Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;
  Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right,
  Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight;
  Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be
  An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.

  Abraham Coles

  Freedom, Father, Ocean

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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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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• Bless all useful objects,
  the spoons made of bone,
  the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
  the typewriter that is my church
  with an altar of keys always waiting.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Keys, Typewriters

  Anne Sexton (1975). "El horrible remo hacia Dios", Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Tengo una montaña anclada a poca distancia hacia el este, a la que asciendo en sueños tanto despierto como dormido. Su ancha base se extiende sobre un pueblo o dos, que no la conocen; ni ella los conoce a ellos, ni yo cuando asciendo a ella. Puedo ver su contorno general tan claramente ahora en mi mente como el de Wachusett. No invento nada, sino que expongo exactamente lo que veo. Me doy cuenta de que subo cuando tengo los pies ligeros y estoy serio. Siempre humea como un altar con su sacrificio. No sé si algún aldeano la frecuenta o la conoce. Guardo esta montaña para cabalgar en lugar de un caballo.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Horse, Knowledge

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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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• 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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• Y, en efecto, ¿no hay algo sagrado en una gran cocina? El resplandor de hileras y más hileras de recipientes de metal colgando de ganchos o reposando en sus estantes hasta que se necesitan con el aire de tantos cálices esperando la celebración del sacramento de la comida. Y la cocina como un altar, sí, ante el que mi madre se inclinaba en perpetuo homenaje, con una franja de sudor en el labio superior y el fuego brillando en sus mejillas.

  Angela Carter

  Madre, Aire, Brillante

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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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• 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

  "De qué le sirve al hombre ganar el mundo entero si pierde su propia alma", por Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. 26 de abril de 2008.

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  Porque no hay defensa para un hombre que, en el exceso de su riqueza, ha pateado el gran altar de la Justicia fuera de la vista.

  Esquilo

  Hombres, Vista, Justicia

  Esquilo, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1970). "Oresteia", p.50, Univ of California Press

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• Golpead vuestros altares y vuestras hogueras;
  Golpead las verdes tumbas de vuestros padres;
  ¡Por Dios y por vuestra tierra natal!

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Fire, Land, Patriotism

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.11

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• Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Sacrifice, Way Forward, People

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• When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Love, Believe, Identification

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.311, University of Virginia Press

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• If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

  Yann Martel

  Motivational, Music, Dream

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Ignorance, Kind, Worst

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century”, p.136, Macmillan

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• Hay heroísmo tanto en el crimen como en la virtud. El vicio y la infamia tienen sus altares y su religión.

  William Hazlitt

  Vicios, Heroísmo, Virtud

  William Hazlitt (1839). "Sketches and Essays", p.39

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• Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  School, Forever, Political

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• El Estado es el altar de la libertad política y, como el altar religioso, se mantiene con el propósito del sacrificio humano.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Sacrifice, Political

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Soy un amante de la verdad, un adorador de la libertad, un celebrante en el altar del lenguaje y la pureza y la tolerancia.

  Stephen Fry

  Tolerancia, Amantes, Lengua

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• El ritual siempre significará tirar algo: destruir nuestro maíz o nuestro vino en el altar de nuestros dioses.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dios, Vino, Medio

  "Tremendas bagatelas. Secreto de un tren". Libro de Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

  Greta Garbo

  Empowerment, Want, Married

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Humility, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). "El Emerson espiritual: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson", p.42, Penguin

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• Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Friendship, Unhappy, Asylums

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