{"quotes":[{"text":"In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.","author":"Helen Rowland","tags":["practice","still","altar "],"id":50109,"author_id":"Helen+Rowland"},{"text":"The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for sister-hood is no more,for her to adore!While pangs the beating world in a lamenting voice;their remembering loss of the 'one' they embrace most and when the crepuscule came like a phantom,the mournful,gathered birds swiftly flew in gloom.","author":"Nithin Purple","tags":["adore","altar","beloved","birds","crepuscular","crepuscule","death","embarrassment","embrace","faint","gathering-darkness","gloom","gloominess","gloomy","lament","life","literature","loss","love-lost","mournful","mournfulness","muted","nithin-purple","nithinpurple","pangs","patience","peace","phantom","poems","poems-on-life","poetry","poetry","remembered","sister-love","sisterhood","swift","swiftly","tears","teary","world","worldly","writers"],"id":51416,"author_id":"Nithin+Purple"},{"text":"When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["altar","celebration","community","danger","darkness","destruction","enthrone","god","greed","human-pleasure","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","mountain","nation","people","pleasure","power","throne","ungodliness"],"id":61995,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.","author":"Joseph de Maistre","tags":["altar","civilization","divine","order","religion","sacrifice"],"id":112647,"author_id":"Joseph+de+Maistre"},{"text":"When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed and crawled at the foot of the throne, and in the dust of the altar, of how they abased themselves, of how abjectly they stood in the presence of superstition robed and crowned, I am amazed.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["altar","slavery","suffer","superstition","throne"],"id":116142,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.","author":"Laura Teresa Marquez","tags":["abundance","altar","concern","confidence","effort","personal-abundance","prayer"],"id":140798,"author_id":"Laura+Teresa+Marquez"},{"text":"When evil altars are invoked, great destinies are altered.","author":"Steven Chuks Nwaokeke","tags":["altar","altar-of-god","church","destiny","evil-altar","evil-altars","god","holy-spirit","jesus","marine-kingdom","occult","power","powerless","prayer","prayerless","witch"],"id":147416,"author_id":"Steven+Chuks+Nwaokeke"},{"text":"An altar is like an airport where spirits take off and land.","author":"Steven Chuks Nwaokeke","tags":["airport","altar","alterless","chuks-nwaokeke","church","faith","god","grace","holy-spirit","inspire","jesus","land","sound-proof","spirits","steven-chuks-nwaokeke","take-off","taxi","voice","voiceless"],"id":153144,"author_id":"Steven+Chuks+Nwaokeke"},{"text":"Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair oil, or ointment? We are told in the thirtieth chapter of Exodus, that the Lord commanded Moses to take myrrh, cinnamon, sweet calamus, cassia, and olive oil, and make a holy ointment for the purpose of anointing the tabernacle, tables, candlesticks and other utensils, as well as Aaron and his sons; saying, at the same time, that whosoever compounded any like it, or whoever put any of it on a stranger, should be put to death. In the same chapter, the Lord furnishes Moses with a recipe for making a perfume, saying, that whoever should make any which smelled like it, should be cut off from his people. This, to me, sounds so unreasonable that I cannot believe it. Why should an infinite God care whether mankind made ointments and perfumes like his or not? Why should the Creator of all things threaten to kill a priest who approached his altar without having washed his hands and feet? These commandments and these penalties would disgrace the vainest tyrant that ever sat, by chance, upon a throne.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["aaron","altar","belief","bible","care","command","commandment","death","death-penalty","disgrace","exodus","fickle","god","holy","infinite","jehovah","kill","lord","mankind","moses","ointment","penalties","perfume","petty","priest","priorities","tabernacle","the-bible","the-lord","threats","throne","tyrant","unreasonable","vanity","yahweh"],"id":215324,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war.","author":"Steven Chuks Nwaokeke","tags":["airport","altar","alterless","burial-ground","bury","casualties","casualty","christianity","chuks-nwaokeke","church","days","death","dust-to-dust","engage","exempt","faith","fight","god","grace","grave","heaven","hell","holy-spirit","inspire","jesus","land","next","power","powerful","powerless","prayerless","refusal","refuse","sound-proof","spirits","steven-chuks-nwaokeke","strive","take-off","taxi","voice","voiceless","war","warfare","years"],"id":332076,"author_id":"Steven+Chuks+Nwaokeke"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}