#worship

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol. ↗

— Stanley Hauerwas

#worship

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#celebrity #hubris #quote #self-importance #vanity

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

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

These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies.” “Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#men

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#comfortable #i #jew #worshipping

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#delusions #humbling #humility #means #real

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#amoral #ancient #both #earth #fairly