Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvat...
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G. K. CHESTERTON A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing goes against it,” said G. K. Chesterton...
ROD DREHER The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi...
JUVENAL J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome...
JOHN LLOYD For our high Gods have sick and wearied grown Of all our endless sins, our vain endeavour For wasted...
OSCAR WILDE If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict up...
MIGUEL SYJUCO I don’t need a ritual to tell me we have a biological connection, or that the gods have already de...
N.D. JONES Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things...
G.K. CHESTERTON A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times b...
G.K. CHESTERTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON But if there hasn't been any corn on shelves of grocery stores, maybe people will be ready to eat co...
ANN HOLT There is no place in our budget to begin school construction this year. It may be two or three years...
HANK DAVIS I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost...
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JEFF SMITH Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for
it is better for...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It's always been our view that there was poor record-keeping and/or someone was stealing wine from M...
DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT Even an atheist may be ready to concede that a good wine is the drink of gods.
PAUL CARVEL It's always been in our family. All my uncles and aunts and cousins have been altar servers.
HECTOR GONZALEZ The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and d...
CHARLES EASTMAN The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and ...
BIBLE Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of abo...
G.K. CHESTERTON Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit...
LAWRENCE BLOCK Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounde...
PADMA LAKSHMI Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in w...
MIKE CRAPO It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon wh...
ELIE WIESEL Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL In the morning we drink lots of espresso. That's our ritual.
BECKIE SCOTT An Altar in life, alters our life.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HERACLITUS Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LOR...
BIBLE O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our peop...
G. K. CHESTERTON I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and pa...
SIMON VAN BOOY By 2007, we expect the number of triple-stacked acres in our national corn brands will surpass the n...
CARL CASALE Anyone who is throwing you away is pushing you towards something big.
ARSLAN AHMAD Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...
NEIL GAIMAN our individual quirks and flaws. ... We look forward to planning the rest of our lives together and ...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT It's our contention that, in an effort to stop throwing the ball, it got away from him and hit (the ...
ED SPRAGUE Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Where can we find a worshiper who envy a sparrow or a swallow just because of their uninterrupted ac...
SANTOSH THANKACHAN We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding expo...
JASON SILVA The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
WILLA CATHER The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glo...
BILLY GRAHAM Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But ...
PAWAN KALYAN All of our pitchers have been throwing really well. We've been focusing on throwing strikes. That's ...
BRAD LABRUYERE The prime minister continues to demonize us. We will continue to pray and to resist, but we will do ...
BENTZI LIEBERMAN Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto t...
BIBLE Either we tag our self onto Gods plans, or tag God onto our plans. You decide which is wiser.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM He flows to the ball. He somehow always finds the ball whether you are throwing or running. It's lik...
DARIUS WALKER A check would not always mean turning up something detrimental or negative,
HARVEY SCHILLER Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible natur...
ANDREW MURRAY There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.
CATHY OSTLERE We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, wi...
ELIZABETH FISHEL The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the mo...
JOAN D. VINGE Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
LIN YUTANG Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our
cooks.
LIN YUTANG We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call t...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us or exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the a...
PAUL AMBROISE VALERY ...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than u...
HELEN KELLER Yahweh is the creator of all that there is. He is the most real thing, the only eternal thing. Our h...
CONNILYN COSSETTE The gods have become our diseases.
C.G. JUNG Language is wine upon the lips.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Language is wine upon the lips
VIRGINIA WOOLF Our corn research teams will be working more closely with area farmers and will have more eyes in th...
BILL NIEBUR Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us ...
WILLA CATHER When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: o...
GENEEN ROTH The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.
BILLY PARISH I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes awa...
FRANCESCA ANNIS Our biggest challenges are trying to find a chemistry that's compatible with the low-k dielectrics. ...
BEN CRUZ The value of our corn went down pretty dramatically. That's an example of why it's important.
ROB ELLIOTT Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
MILLER WILLIAMS On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.
DON WILLIAMS, JR. On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.
DON WILLIAMS JR. We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to b...
LORETTA LYNN I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit Ameri...
DONALD TRUMP Until now, human organization could only be based upon something negative which could not be conquer...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
EURIPIDES Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration statu...
WENDY KOPP O let us love our occupations,/ Bless the squire and his relations,/ Live upon our daily rations,/ A...
CHARLES DICKENS As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The farming community always heard China would need a lot of our corn, but now I'm not sure that's g...
ROGER MOORE The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.
BUSTA RHYMES In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness ...
ARIEL GORE In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero fil...
TOM HIDDLESTON And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the alt...
BIBLE Sure it stings to lose the game. But, nothing will ever take away our county championship. We all ca...
JOE CROCCO Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened...
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G. K. CHESTERTON Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does no...
G. K. CHESTERTON If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would esca...
G. K. CHESTERTON Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world...
G. K. CHESTERTON The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitali...
G. K. CHESTERTON Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. CHESTERTON The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In thi...
G. K. CHESTERTON Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about som...
G. K. CHESTERTON Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher...
G. K. CHESTERTON The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
G. K. CHESTERTON When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that n...
G. K. CHESTERTON Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
G. K. CHESTERTON There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes eve...
G. K. CHESTERTON The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristo...
G. K. CHESTERTON Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the...
G. K. CHESTERTON To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believi...
G. K. CHESTERTON Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a m...
G. K. CHESTERTON Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
G. K. CHESTERTON Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, beca...
G. K. CHESTERTON One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTON The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important...
G. K. CHESTERTON What we call personality (...) has become the most impersonal thing in the world. Its pale and featu...
G. K. CHESTERTON The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense...
G. K. CHESTERTON Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our g...
G. K. CHESTERTON The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
G. K. CHESTERTON A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has...
G. K. CHESTERTON Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
G. K. CHESTERTON Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
G. K. CHESTERTON It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
G. K. CHESTERTON O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our peop...
G. K. CHESTERTON We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to ...
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