#worshipped

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God. ↗

— Lactantius

#believe #ceases #god #him #his

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#belief #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #diversity

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#come #creative #dreams #had #i

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ↗

— Richard Burton

#anything #convinced #himself #i #i am

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#instrument #only #prosperity #used #worshipped

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#crumbs #different #eating #feast #forever

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#i #living #sacrifice #service #spirit

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being #daresay #holy #i #made

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ancient times #cats #forgotten #gods #times