Altars Quotes

“I offer you my mouth—
Let me marry my lips to the tops of your thighs,
I kneel between your legs.
I offer you my hands—
Your name written all over my palms,
the fingers I press against you.
I offer you my hips—
My apologetic body.”
― Chantelle Ann

“I have always enjoyed cemeteries. Altars for the living as well as resting places for the dead, they are entryways, I think, to any town or city, the best places to become acquainted with the tastes of the inhabitants, both present and gone.”
― Edwidge Danticat, After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti

“Therefore the messages coming from our altars must change. We must have a shift! “CHURCHSHIFT”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The altars that the patriarchs left behind at forsaken campsites must have seemed strange to the inhabitants of the land when they came across them. They were so simple and crude, always made from dirt or unshapen stones of the field. On the top could be found the charred remains of an animal. The heathen were never able to carry away from those abandoned campsites any religious ornamentation or figurine of Israel’s God that the people of Abraham may have misplaced or lost. How strange it must have seemed to the people of the land that these nomads spoke out into the thin air when they prayed. How easy it is to imagine them saying, “I want something that I can look at when I pray. I want something I can hold in my hand!”

What wonder, awe, and fear the strange worship of Israel invoked upon all of Palestine when for forty years they slowly moved around in a barren land where ordinarily no one could survive. It seems that God has always allowed impossible settings for His people. Our Lord has never apologized for expecting His people to do the hard things. God has always seemed inclined to choose the weak things over the strong, the lowly and despised things, the things that are not, that He may bring to nought the things that are.”
― J.T. Pugh, The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

“In declaring that there is no God we become our own gods, for the absence of a God does not eliminate our need of one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough