#worshiped

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

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

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

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. ↗

— John Piper

#displayed #god #known #loved #wills

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