In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. Helen Rowland
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. Stephen Fry
What he thought of her she knew, what he was capable of saying to her she had felt; yet they were married, for all that, and marriage meant that a woman should cleave to the man with whom, uttering tremendous vows, she had stood at the altar. Henry James
I've been left at the altar now a couple of times. Barack Obama
The priest errs at the altar. Italian Proverb
Mistakes are made even by priests at the altar. Corsican Proverb