Family Altar Quotes

#1. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of
prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the
congregational setting.

Richard Burr

#3. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Ulysses S. Grant

#4. No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty.

Isabella Bird

#5. Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

Paulo Freire

#6. Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.

Heather Gudenkauf

#7. A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

Simeon Strunsky

#8. People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.

Don King

#9. Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.

Bear Grylls

#11. The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

Frank Zappa

#12. I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

Anne Hathaway

#13. It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.

Eric Maisel

#14. You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"

Eckhart Tolle

#15. A little showbiz never hurt anyone.

Peter Capaldi

#16. If I had to choose a single action I guess I would say stop driving.

Chip Giller