“It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.” RealEasyDoubtPossibilityWorshipMythologyGreekCatholicismSensibleConfessionGreek MythologyElegantStatuesDeitiesAltarsDigestionRelicsShrinesIncenseAbsolutionGreek MythTransubstantiation Author:Lord Byron
“Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.” HumansEndsAtheismTearsComfortPromiseWorshipContraryPriestsAfflictionWoeDeitiesAltarsCoffinsAnnihilationAnother LifeIncense Author:François-René de Chateaubriand
“Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.” PersonsMadeSeemsSpiritualLawUniverseClassModernObjectsCollegeExpressionLetting GoWorshipPerformancesStructureMereInstanceAbstractDivinityAddressesGraduatesFrankIdealismCultScandalDeitiesTranscendentalSuperhumanGraduating Class Author:William James
“Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?” HumansLittlesSoulAsksChancePovertyPathFeetWorshipSignificanceDeitiesHuman Soul Author:Alice James
“What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.” IfsFormLife IsWorshipUltimatePhonesDefinitionsIdolsDeities Author:Jon Foreman
“Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.” HumansDoneMovingCommonWorshipCommon SenseRecognitionContributionDeities Author:Max Anders
“The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.” RealBeliefCenturyPrayingShapesWorshipReflectionStonesSaintGravesIslamicAttributesIdolsSufiDeitiesQuranPraying To God18th CenturyDelhiVedasIdol Worship Author:Asghar Ali Engineer
“Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.” WorldKindLiteratureDogWorshipMy DogDeitiesSurplusCanineOverflowGreat DogPuppies And DogsWagsAnachronismLost DogWag The Dog Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)” HumansSoulBodyHuman BeingsHigherDrugWorshipExpectationsHundredDoctorsSuicideAddictionRateAverageEightIntenseVulnerableGoodsOfferingWoundedAnguishWorldlyDeitiesPercentagesHealerDrug Addiction Book:Doctors Source: Doctors
“Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.” MenTwoAgeRocksWorshipContemplationSentimentsDeities Author:Isaac Watts
“My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.” WantNeedsJoySpiritualityWorshipDefinitionsObedienceDeitiesComplianceYour Freedom Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.” WellsOne ThingWorshipTraditionAffirmationDeitiesPrayerful Author:Leonard Cohen
“A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.” WorldLooksMeanDogMastersWorshipRecognitionIdleTailsDeitiesSurplusOverflowWagsAnachronism Author:Ambrose Bierce
“I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.” ChurchReligiousMoneyPowerWorshipCatholicActressesCultDeitiesCatholic ChurchAbusiveMoney And Power Author:Katie Holmes