#altar

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#always #any #been #canada #family

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#civilization #exists #found #wherever

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#being #burning #came #declared #devotion

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#around #centre #christianity #community #gathered

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ↗

— Charles Buck

#belly #cook #god #kitchen #priest

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#altar #eternal #every #form #god

I'm a lapsed altar boy. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#boy #i #lapsed

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#lament #many #towns

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#am #difficult #get #get married #go