#worship

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

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#aversion #jumble #ostensible #secret #worship

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. ↗

— John Foxe

#dreaded #gospel #greatly #had #having

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#economic #freedom #general #general public #go

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#beyond #churches #dark #did #doors

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#although #choice #comfortable #culture #familiar

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#fact #i #i think #in fact #leaks

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#down #i #like #looked #meeting

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. ↗

— Thomas More

#different parts #even #every #island #moon