“We believe that nothing worthy of our worship would want our worship.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 18 (p. 401)
“Most atheists, if they worship anything, worship something which really exists but is not worthy of worship.”
Source: "The Masters of Suspicion", p. 84
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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
Context: Cannot we understand how these men worshipped Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping the stars? Such is to me the secret of all forms of Paganism. Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for which there is now no limit or measure; that is worship.
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Address at the Rameswaram Temple on Real Worship
Context: This is the gist of all worship — to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste, or creed, or race, or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
The Serpent, in Pt I : In the Beginning
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Let Me be a Woman
“Worship itself is a given — or it does not exist at all.”
Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 59
