#worship

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#clearness #exult #invisibility #love #obscurity

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#aversion #jumble #ostensible #secret #worship

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#god #him #may #our #planet

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#his #solitary #vice #worship #worst

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#death #love #martyrs #men #prophets

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#anxiety #constant #find #free #long

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#am #freedom #i #i am #language

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#i #living #sacrifice #service #spirit

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#darkness #diminish #glory #god #him

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#civilization #destroying #expected #i #loved