Creature Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

— Ambrose Bierce

“If they can worship a weird creature, which is even not existed; why I must not worship a beautiful one who is already here.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I can’t bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.”

— James Herriot

“Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly looks down…

— Frederick Buechner

“That creature which we idolize God justly removes from us, or embitters to us.”

— Matthew Henry

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this…

— Hubert Reeves

“If vanity were a religion, he’d be a fundamentalist.”

— Rion Amilcar Scott

“We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment”

— Swami Vivekananda

“Grant that I may worship and pray unto Thee with as much reverence and godly fear, as if I saw the heavens open and…

— William Law

“What rubbish anyway, he thought with scorn, an all-powerful god that was everywhere at once yet nowhere to be seen. These grunts believe anything,…

— Howard Loring

“Then said Good-Will, "Alas, poor Pliable! Is the celestial glory of so little value to him that he considers it unworthy of his hazarding…

— John Bunyan

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”

— Anne Carson