Altars Quotes

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

Arthur Powell Davies
- God
- Looks
- Ifs
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

Jim Elliot
- Remember
- Sheep
- Pastures
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

William James
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

Barbara Brown Taylor
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.

Adolf Hitler
Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.

Alfred Austin
- Mind
- Age
- Past
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

Victor Hugo
- God
- Creature
- Altars