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“What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.”

Kind Home Heaven Sin Glory Smoke Tonight Drs Remarks Glory Of God Cigar Drifting Incense Pentecost

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome”

Enough Together Turns Church Food Fruit Woods Smell Burning Meat Herbs Incense Voluptuous Roasting

Book:Everything tastes better outdoors

Source: Everything tastes better outdoors

“The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!”

“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”

Home Reality Action Deeds Chinese Far Away Good Deeds Incense Chinese Proverb

Author:Amelia Earhart

“Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer -- Go out beneath the naked night and get religion there.”

Earth Night Prayer Silence Sky Sweet Breaths Naked Spheres Midnight Deities Crystals Incense

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.”

Writing Years Left Records Red Sticks Paint Everyday Routine Perfume Incense Testicles

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.”

Thinking Life Is Right Now Wow Baths Incense Tubs Life Is Great

Author:Brian Austin Green

“Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.”

Source: Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,

“The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .”

Fool Praise Wisest Incense

Book:Vivian Grey

Source: Vivian Grey

“At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.”

World Looks Ends Our Lives Sticks Burned Fragrance Incense

Author:Prem Prakash

“Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away.”

Feels Mind Heart Soul States Heaven Prayer Sweet Shadow Thrones Risen Mellow Incense Sweet Thoughts

Book:A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell

Source: A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell

“I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass.”

Knows May Hands Grows Steps Sun Wall Draws Garden Plant Enjoyment Pleasant Culinary Sweetness Incomparable Incense Rosemary

Book:Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

Source: Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

“But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.”

May Science Understanding Scientist Skeptic Dubious Incense

Author:Robertson Davies

“All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.”

Mouths Charity Burning Philanthropy Incense Sewers

Author:Ellen Key