worship

Here is the heart of our island: the Chilterns, the North Downs, the South Downs radiate hence. The fibres of England unite in Wiltshire, and did we condescend to worship her, here should we erect our national shrine.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must show him on the roadside when you meet him; you must show him in the streets of the town; you must show him in the fair and the market place; and even in the house of worship, by leaving him severely aloneöby putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating himfromhiskindasif hewerea leperofold.You must show himyourdetestationofthe crimesthat hehas committed.

—Parnell, Charles Stewart

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

—Doolittle,James Harold

Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him,Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Sometimes you might think that the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

—Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)

The great temple of fiction has no well-marked front portal; most devoteesarrivethrough a side door, and not dressed for worship.

—Updike,John Hoyer

O worship the King, all glorious above; O gratefully sing his power and his love: Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, Pavilioned in splendour, and girded with praise.

—Grant, Sir Robert

Hoo-doo, which in America flowered in New Orleans, was an unorganized religion without ego-games or death worship.

—Reed, Ishmael Scott

The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in whichsuch a benefit ispossible.If, however, we proceed along the clear and obvious lines of our traditional behavior, and follow our traditional worship of progress and the fifth freedomöthe freedom to exploitöit is practically certain that we shall have to face a decade or more of ruin and despair.

—Wiener, Norbert

   Now of wemen this I say for me, Off erthly thingis nane may bettir be; Thay suld haif wirschep and great honoring Off men, aboif all uthir erthly thing.

—Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re

To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

—Tennyson

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Worship is transcendent wonder.

—Carlyle,Thomas

   The worship of God is not a rule of safetyöit is an adventure of thespirit, a flight after theunattainable.The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

Hissensuality has all drifted intosexual vanity, delight for being the candletothemoths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity† His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationshipsöthe lack of a sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideasöall these defects came largely from the flippant and worthless self- complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women.

—Webb, (Martha) Beatrice ne¤  e Potter

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Your worship is your furnaces Which, like old idols, lost obscenes, Have molten bowels; your vision is Machines for making more machines.

—Bottomley, Gordon