We see sacrifices on the altar but God sees blood splashed on the walls of the altar
Let the devil get into the church, and he will mount the altar.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some of them were altar boys, and they were abused before or after mass. An altar boy walked right in front of us as we sat there. I began to sh...
Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.
When the goat goes to church, he does not stop till he gets to the altar.
He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the altar.
Zip it kiddo. Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you later in life.
Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...
See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into l...
She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the lake}, memory blossoms floated unbounded, as though breathed, no words spoken. Like birds that fly across national borders, between cou...
Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it...
I'm a lapsed altar boy.
Jesus can you show me Just how far the east is from the west, Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been Rising up in me again. In the arms of your mercy I find rest Cause you know just how far the east is from the west--- From one scarred hand to t...
The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery ...
I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the r...
I was an altar boy and a choir member.
Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
