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We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him  (Altar Quotes) This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form  (Altar Quotes) In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god  (Altar Quotes) 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?  (Altar Quotes) In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that’s where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass  (Altar Quotes) Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings  (Altar Quotes) 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  (Altar Quotes) It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar  (Altar Quotes) We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money, have been sacrificed to them than to any other altar on this green earth, and for what?  (Altar Quotes) The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy  (Altar Quotes) Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further  (Altar Quotes) Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest  (Altar Quotes) I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause  (Altar Quotes) Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar  (Altar Quotes) Don’t be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time  (Altar Quotes) When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving  (Altar Quotes) The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom  (Altar Quotes) I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn’t move to plead his cause  (Altar Quotes) 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  (Altar Quotes) 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  (Altar Quotes) Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference  (Altar Quotes) One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar and I didn’t know it. I mean there was a little blood there, and something like that  (Altar Quotes) It was no vain or unintelligent act when, knowing the land, its people and climate, I laid my dear wife and the darling children with myself on the altar for this service  (Altar Quotes) Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy  (Altar Quotes) We must learn to exist in a consumer empire but not forfeit our souls at its altar  (Altar Quotes) The secret heart is fair devotion’s temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted  (Altar Quotes) How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb  (Altar Quotes) Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace  (Altar Quotes) 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  (Altar Quotes) Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods  (Altar Quotes)
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