“First the Gods adore.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
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“These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.”
Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law
I:11.
The Book of the Law (1904)
“God and the navy we adore, when danger threatens but not before!”
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) British author
For My Country's Freedom, Cap 10 "Deception"
“As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 444.
“Adoration in prayer purges our spirit and prepares us to listen to God.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
Cyprian (200–258) Bishop of Carthage and Christian writer
Letter 1 Letter to Donatus, viii
Letters of Cyprian
“Tradition reigns, the gospel of the blind adoration of what was and what is — God without a head.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XX The Cult
Context: Tradition reigns, the gospel of the blind adoration of what was and what is — God without a head. Man's destiny is eternally blockaded by two forms of tradition; in time, by hereditary succession; in space, by frontiers, and thus it is crushed and annihilated in detail. It is the truth. I am certain of it, for I am touching it.
Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 104.
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) Spanish poet, essayist and critic
“Revolt of a Newborn”, from Revolt of a Newborn (1973)