Worship Quotes - Page 21

• Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Hate, Self, Loathing

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire (100 Cupboards Book 2)”, p.337, Yearling

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• To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Love You, Firsts

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• Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

  John Piper

  Causes, Capacity, Magnificent

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• I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on my face at your feet and worship you"-he dropped the towel and reached out, taking me by the shoulders-"and still I want to force ye to your knees before me, and hold ye there wi' me hands tangled in your hair, and your mouth at my service...and I want both things at the same time, Sassenach.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Fall, Simple

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.930, Dell

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• It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gone, Compliment, Confession

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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• Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

  Max Brooks

  Technology, World War Z, Zeitgeist

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.166, Broadway Books

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• What made you so unforgiving? (Simone) Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you’ll always be ignorant. (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grateful, Luxury, Ignorant

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• ...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.

  Dan Brown

  Religious, Mean, Evil

  "The Lost Symbol". Ch. 6. Book by Dan Brown, 2009.

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• You were impaled? (Delphine) You know the worst part about impalement? You don’t die immediately. You hang on bleeding and aching as the spike works its way slowly through your body until it pierces some major organ. Pray to the gods you worship that you never know what that feels like. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Body, Bleeding, Way

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dream Warrior”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I’ve ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk … I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I’d made you that way, that you belonged to me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Ideas, Voice

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• [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Careers, Culture, Citizens

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• I just don’t see how anyone can be so cold. (Kiara) And you should be grateful, little girl, to whatever god you worship, that you can say that. In the world we come from, I don’t understand how anyone can be anything but cold. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Grateful, World

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.265, Macmillan

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• I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Night, Worship You

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• It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.

  Ann Brashares

  Practice, Two, Needs

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.69, Penguin

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• I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Girl, Home, Years

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan

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• It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Light, Worship You

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.498, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Together, Needs

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.187, Penguin

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• We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Children, Knowing, Soul

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Sailing to Sarantium: Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic”, p.153, Penguin

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• Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Grieving, Worship You, Body

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• As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)

  Nancy Holder

  Spring, Rain, Self

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• Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

  John Calvin

  Fancy, Conceit, Dare

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

  Harry Crews

  Men, God Is Dead

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• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Hero, Reality

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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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• The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

  Yukio Mishima

  Hero, Inferiority, Cynicism

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