Quotes about worship

Worship is transcendent wonder.

— Thomas Carlyle

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

— Lydia M. Child

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

— Calvin Coolidge

Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

— Sri Anandamayi Ma

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Vanna Bonta