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Quotes About Worship

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped... Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshipers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshiped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshiped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.(138-139)
~ Zora Neale Hurston
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable- Caucasian characteristics for all. Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in deserts. but she would not forsake his altars. Behind her crude words was a belief that somehow she and others through worship could attain her paradise- a heaven of straight-haired, thin-lipped, high-nose boned white seraphs.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
That was the mystery and the mysteries are the chores of gods.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
God above all.
~ Jair Bolsonaro
Use God's word to acknowledge what He did for you.
~ Monica Johnson
Muchas mujeres son tan exageradas en su culto, que quieren encontrar siempre un dios en su ídolo, mientras que las que aman a un hombre más por lo que es que por sí mismas adoran sus pequeñeces tanto como sus grandezas.
~ Honore de Balzac
Let us see God before man every day.
~ Horatius Bonar
After all, is football a game or a religion?
~ Howard Cosell
what sanctities any space as a synagogue is a natter of what happens there, not where or what it is.
~ Unknown
It is no coincidence that music is called the universal language and used as a form of worship.
~ Howard Storm
Life-changing experiences have occurred during contemplation, recovery from addiction, during worship, in extreme emergencies, and under the duress of combat.
~ Howard Storm
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 God he's worshiping.
~ Hubert Reeves
So Mr. Jenkins undertook the building of a new place of worship, and, in part under his own hands, an attractive and churchly building arose, costing some $3,000, dedicated to St. John.
~ Hudson Stuck
I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.
~ Hunter Tylo
Those who worship God for the hope of gaining, theyre not real worshippers, theyre merchants. Those who worship God out of fear (of punishment), theyre slaves. And those who worship God to be grateful towards their creator, they are the free people, and their worship is a real one.
~ Unknown
We are a race prone to monsters ... and when we produce one we worship it.
~ Iain M. Banks
To put it in the contemporary vernacular, Baal and Asherah were in effect the patron saints of sex and guns and rock 'n' roll, promising to deliver a potent mixture of satisfaction to the desires for power, success, and pleasure. This
~ Unknown
A temple-centered life, which is nothing less than a God-centered life, is the way to true freedom. The
~ Unknown