It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them. JOHN CLELLON HOLMES The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imag... THEODOR REIK Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do somet... OSCAR WILDE Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They th... CHAPMAN COHEN For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Gre... BARBARA EHRENREICH In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choo... JOSEPH CAMPBELL To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surr... ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they wo... ZORA NEALE HURSTON Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been co... NELSON MANDELA Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false... W.H. AUDEN Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be... HORACE WALPOLE I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship t... MICHAEL DIRDA I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred... SAVITRI DEVI I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one anoth... CHARLES M. SCHULZ I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what ... RICH COHEN Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost. LAINI TAYLOR The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian... TOM HIDDLESTON All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. PEARL S. BUCK Now as they made their way through the exuberantly crowded village, Daisy understood what Westcliff ... LISA KLEYPAS The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned t... R. SCOTT BAKKER He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to
worship by all means the gods of t... ROBERT BURTON I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Do not say, 'But it is hypocritical to thank God with my tongue when I don't feel thankful in my hea... JOHN PIPER The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and... WILLIAM BLAKE This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be... D.H. LAWRENCE Cake for later, cake as a way of life. LAINI TAYLOR Feast of Mark the Evangelist The first article of Christian faith is that man has one and only on... DANIEL DAY WILLIAMS The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that i... DALLAS WILLARD When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fra... DENNIS IGNATIUS Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affiniti... SRI AUROBINDO I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine... RICK RIORDAN His (the Christian God) type of gods aren't gods who echo how mortals behave. They're gods who are h... JAMES LOVEGROVE Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show origina... TONY ATTWOOD But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and s... BIBLE The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ... LUDWIG VON MISES Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who hated and belittled each other's l... KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two w... NANCY LEIGH DEMOSS I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak... LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak... LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and... WILLIAM BLAKE It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dull... C.S. LEWIS Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha... LANGSTON HUGHES He's like a God. You worship the gods, but you don't go out with them. You only like guys like that ... CYNTHIA HAND Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in o... ARAVIND ADIGA Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful ... FAKHR AL-DIN AL-RAZI You cannot outguess the gods. Hold to virtue—if you can identify it—and trust that the duty set ... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Lift your worship off the ground to a higher ground where love abounds. One thing that hinders since... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ... DIOGENES LAëRTIUS Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth. RICK RIORDAN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandmen... BIBLE This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm ... THOMAS MERTON I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use... GEORGE BORROW Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ide... MARK TWAIN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... 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Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned ... GEORGE SANTAYANA And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblan... JANE AUSTEN I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - mone... N. T. WRIGHT Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great. PHILIP K. DICK But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in... ALBERT PIKE In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thin... C.J. SANSOM Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t... ST. ATHANASIUS You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someo... N.T. WRIGHT
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But how could you live and have no story to tell? FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then sudde... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considere... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for h... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If God does not exist, then everything is permitted FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of lo... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you we... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If you chase several hares at once, you won't overtake any one of them. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with th... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The high road is something very, very long, of which one cannot see the end - like human life, like ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of etern... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY ..., and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means o... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and soli... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such ques... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appea... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediate... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work
and struggle. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Science which has become a great power in the lastcentury, has analyzed everything divine handed dow... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God s... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destro... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very of... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Отцы и учители, мыслю: "что есть ад?" Рассуждаю так: "С... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Wel... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and forme... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Life [had] replaced logic. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY