Quotes About Votive

#1. It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Lewis H. Lapham

#2. Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

Caroline Norton

#3. Neither my mother nor I had acknowledged it at breakfast, as if even the mention of passing time would crack the fragile votive that ensconced us. And now, I would shatter it.

Skye Warren

#4. The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

Christopher Fowler

#5. I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

Anne Lamott

#6. Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

Sallust

#7. By associating votive offerings with sacred images, the Catholic Church, it its wisdom, had left its formerly pagan flock a legitimate outlet for the inveterate impulse to associate oneself, or one's own effigy, with the Divine as expressed in the palpable form of the human image.

Aby Warburg

#8. The wife Estelle's stone sinks to the right. The dead here seem really dead, and bone lonely, unlike the graves in Italian cemeteries, bedecked with fresh flowers, red votive lights, and photos of the deceased.

Frances Mayes

#9. A list of birds seen on a given day is also a form of prayer, a thanksgiving for being alive at a certain time and place. Posting that list online is a 21st-century form of a votive offering.

Brian Kimberling

#10. The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, if not as benefit-club, as votive sisterhood of some sort; and it walked still.

Thomas Hardy

#11. My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

F. Sionil Jose

#12. A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Boethius

#13. There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

Scott Ian

#14. His smile is too beautiful for his world, and I am dying of love.

Ann Aguirre

#15. We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Al Gore

#16. Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Van Wyck Brooks

#17. In the calm violence of your being, desire.

Carole Maso

#18. Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#19. Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Jeremy Spencer

#20. And she smiles and she utters unearthly things and she utters not in any known language, in stars and pain, pulque she says I am devouring time and the earth

Carole Maso

#21. I weep flowers, I weep song, I bleed

Carole Maso