#worship

A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a woman, with likes and dislikes: a jealous woman. The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some of them names--Mars of the fields and the war, Vesta the fire, Ceres the grain, Mother Tellus the earth, the Penates of the storehouse. The rivers, the springs. And in the storm cloud and the light is the great power called the father god. But they aren't people. They don't love and hate, they aren't for or against. They accept the worship due them, which augments their power, through which we live. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#gods #mythology #spirituality #worship #love

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#considered #equally #false #magistrate #modes

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#honor #icons #need #nobody #religious

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#heaven #liberty #little #men #tyrant

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#commerce #conscience #happiness #humanity #knowledge

I don't believe in hero worship. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#hero #i #worship

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. ↗

— Clive Bell

#genius #inevitable #sign #uncreative #worship

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years. ↗

— Vince Cable

#generally #perhaps #recent #worship #years

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. ↗