"When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!"
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"I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship."
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"You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship."
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"Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about."
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"Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God."
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"Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship."
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"Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair."
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"What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We."
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"Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.""
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"Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose."
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"Worship is an exercise of the Holy Spirit directed primarily to God"
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"I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ."
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"The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable."
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"Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them."
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"Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?"
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"Society is founded on hero-worship."
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"Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor."
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"The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship."
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"He worships God who knows him."
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"Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship."
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