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Worship Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
- I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
- The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living…
- The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the…
- The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.…
- We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the…
- Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.
- It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that…
- Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on…
- Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
- It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
- For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me.… — Roseanne Barr
- I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant
- The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost… — Annie Besant
- Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce
- Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic… — Michael Bloomberg
- But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship… — Bono
- It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but… — Christian Nestell Bovee