#worship

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#called #concerned #danger #divine #expression

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. ↗

— Mary Antin

#could #culture #draw #education #had

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#america #cult #extreme #going #hilt

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick? ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#everything #fashionable #how #i #just

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#allowed #always #approach #felt #his

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#bravely #childish #desires #god #harbor

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#always #any #arena #bad #been

I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids. I think I must have been Adolf Hitler in a past life. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#been #being #beneath #earth #every

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#beloved #dearer #everything #god #life

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God. ↗

— John Piper

#worship #beauty