Best church & altars Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Faces Used Church Boys Laughing Thrown Priests Plates Altars Solemn Fourteen

Author:Elvis Costello

“Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.”

Men Hands Church Sleep White Enemy Worst Fields Bed Rings Ease Encounters Harvest Altars Stretching Wheat Worst Enemy Indolence

Author:Frederic Dan Huntington

“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.”

“Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.”

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Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. 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.”

“Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”

Ifs Men Believe Heart Art War Truth Lying Born Imagination Church Military Honesty Deeds Guides Titles Idols Altars

Book:Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].

Source: Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].

“... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.”

Book School Church Prayer Christianity Flower Holy Mass Gold Saint Ugly Saved Cards Latin Aesthetic Easter Lamps Outlets Altars Lilies Hymns Rosary Wreaths

Author:Mary McCarthy

“There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where bones are broken, Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed”

Church Dark Broken Bed Rivers Clean Killing Bones Block Knives Altars Healed Glitter Cripples Imbeciles

Author:Charles Simic

“If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.”

Ifs Men Church Opinion Pieces Window Observation Altars

Book:Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Source: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

“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.”

Made Dream Waiting Church Objects Keys Bones Cooks Bless Altars Spoons Typewriters Mattresses Always Waiting

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“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.”

Church Religious Doors Worship Corners Thrones Altars

Author:Louie Giglio

“One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old.”

Giving Looks Age Church Consciousness Discovery Brave Delight Appearance Priests Ritual Permission Traps New Age Ceremony Altars

Author:Richard Bach

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