“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) English historian and churchman
The Belvedere Apollo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Whoever worships the gods in good faith, loves their priests too.”
Qui bona fide deos colit amat et sacerdotes.
Preface, line 10
Silvae, Book V
“It costs too much to worship God in public.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
Context: Another thing is the magnificence of the churches. The church depends absolutely upon the rich. Poor people feel out of place in such magnificent buildings. They drop into the nearest seat; like poor relations, they sit on the extreme edge of the chair. At the table of Christ they are below the salt. They are constantly humiliated. When subscriptions are asked for they feel ashamed to have their mite compared with the thousands given by the millionaire. The pennies feel ashamed to mingle with the silver in the contribution plate. The result is that most of them avoid the church. It costs too much to worship God in public. Good clothes are necessary, fashionably cut.
“Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.”
John Marks Templeton (1912–2008) stock investor, businessman and philanthropist
The Quotable Sir John
George Wither (1588–1667) English poet
I Loved a Lass; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.
“For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto II, line 257
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction”
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter