(99 quotes found)
“Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity.”
William Arthur Ward
“Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? / Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.”
Bible
“And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.”
“Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? / Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.”
“Basically, every movie has to come and bow at the altar of the Golden Globes.”
David Poland
“And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”
“But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.”
“And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, / Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.”
“The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vainIf learning's altar vanish from the plain.”
William Ellery Channing
“And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.”
