"Consecrate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their permitting their penitents to conceal so much of the truth from them. The confessor of this girl made her pass for a saint. This he said in my hearing. I answered nothing; for love would not permit me to speak of my troubles. I should consecrate them all to ...
— The Autobiography of Madame Guyon • Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
... as it may, Bonaparte well knew that the fine arts entail lasting glory on great actions, and consecrate the memory of princes who protect and encourage them. He oftener than once said to me, "A great reputation is a great poise; the more there is made, the farther off it is heard. Laws, institutions, ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... field that smiles to Heaven In Nature's bright array, From common uses set apart, We consecrate to-day. ...
— Ballads • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... would be serviceable for the king; and when the bishop asked the opinion of other people, many thought it should be sold, and the value-bestowed on the poor. Then said the bishop, "I will take another plan. I will have a chalice made of it for this church, and consecrate it, so that all the saints of whom there are relics in this church shall let the king have some good for his gift every time a mass is sung over it." This chalice has since belonged to the bishopric of Skalholt; ...
— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson
... the summer of 341, when ninety bishops met at Antioch to consecrate the Golden Church, begun by Constantine. The character of the council is an old question of dispute. Hilary calls it a meeting of saints, and its canons have found their way into the authoritative collections; yet ...
— The Arian Controversy • H. M. Gwatkin
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