Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Of Godliness.
A short Schem of the true Religion
“Whoever worships the gods in good faith, loves their priests too.”
Preface, line 10
Silvae, Book V
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Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Last Notebook (1942) p. 137
First and Last Notebooks (1970)
Context: In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled — that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.
“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
“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).
“Whoever loves himself cannot love God.”
Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint
§ 12
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)
“No honour was left for the gods, when Augustus chose to be himself worshipped with temples and statues, like those of the deities, and with flamens and priests.”
Nihil deorum honoribus relictum, cum se templis et effigie numinum per flamines et sacerdotes coli vellet.
Book I, 10; Church-Brodribb translation
Annals (117)
“Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.”
John the Evangelist (10–98) author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author o…
1 John 4:8 http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwt/E/2013/62/4#h=20:141-20:213, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures <br class="br">First Letter of John
“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.