Quotes About Self-worship

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Self worship is different from self love.

Everywhere the pallid waiting. And you are the moving epitome of all this. Of you, by you, for you. God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

The more I study religion," he wrote, "the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anyone but himself.

Your body is a temple and I'm in need of serious prayer.

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Idolization of oneself is a crime. One is the prisoner of his once blindfolded complacency.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

A man cannot love himself; he can only idolize it, and over the idol delightfully tyrannize - without purpose. The great gift which the simple idolatry of self gives is lack of further purpose

But this is completely perverse, namely, to please and enjoy oneself in one's works, and to worship oneself as an idol.

Like when she told me in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves. She'd use this rule to explain human nature: we desecrate in protest, we're afraid of people taking our stuff, and we worship ourselves.

When man makes himself his own Sun—that is, his own God—then he destroys his world. As ex-communist Whittaker Chambers observed, Marx and his minions were merely echoing the first mistake of man, initiated way back in the Garden of Eden: ye shall be as gods.

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

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Self worship is different from self love.

Why worship God when you can worship yourself? says the "celebrity.

Don't worship saints or sinners, for both demand your soul, and each man's soul should be his own.

They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance