#adoration

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience. ↗

— Charley Pride

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. ↗

— Martin Luther

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...Why did just my eyes adore you - Have you ever wondered that? well, as Hegel said, “Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”... ↗

— John Geddes

#hegel #love #love

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate. ↗

— Barbara Dana

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it. ↗

— Andrew Matthews

#adore #desire #inspiration #life #living

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?... ↗

— John Geddes

#blaspheme #love #saint #worship #love

...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#divine #endurable #eyes #give-up #god

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #words #worship #love

Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She receded an inch or two. A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#graham #polly #unrequited-love #villette #love

...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words... ↗

— John Geddes

#liturgy #love #sacred #words #love