Top 79 Self Worship Quotes
#1. God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?
Sylvia Plath
#2. As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
Vernon Howard
#3. The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.
Criss Jami
#4. Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.
Chris Hedges
#5. If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells.
George MacDonald
#6. Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.
Ravi Zacharias
#7. As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money, of success, comfort, materialism, pleasure, sexual immorality, self-worship, self-obsession. The sacred increasingly disappeared, and the profane took its place.
Jonathan Cahn
#8. The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#9. Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.
N.D. Wilson
#10. Self worship is different from self love.
Vanna Bonta
#11. It takes faith, too, and obedience, to conquer selfishness, that unsubmissive characteristic which, if unchecked, produces profound personal melancholy and solitariness. Selfishness is a form of self-worship, and we have been told, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" (Exodus 20:3).
Neal A. Maxwell
#12. Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.
Swami Muktananda
#13. Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
Jimmy Carter
#14. That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil.
Katherine Kurtz
#15. Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#18. To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
Thomas Merton
#19. The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.
Jakob Bohme
#20. God wants a people addicted to His pleasure, a people who serve Him for no other reason than the delight they take in Him. This is the very heart of worship. It is not self-centred. It is putting God at the very centre of self so that self cannot possibly be satisfied without Him.
John Crowder
#21. Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
James Hillman
#22. You the human are the highest temple of God. I would rather worship you, than worship any temple, image or book.
Abhijit Naskar
#23. Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.
Vishwas Chavan
#24. Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.
Philip Zaleski
#25. 2. Evolve and Be God: As we invoke the presence of Source, holding the focus through our mantras, we are drawing more and more proximity to the object of worship and gradually, we attain all the attributes we are invoking, i.e., we slowly evolve to be Angelic, invoking the presence of God/Source.
Nandhiji
#26. When I wake up each morning; my heart is filled with thanks to God!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!
Dada Bhagwan
#28. If you like happiness, then worship that wherein happiness is inherent. Happiness is in God. God is an abode of infinite bliss. If you worship the inanimate (the non-Self, [Jad]), then you will have pain because there is only pain in the inanimate.
Dada Bhagwan
#29. Anyone who wants a Prakruti (relative self) that brings worldly benefits, they should worship Mataji,the goddess mother. And those who want Moksha [ultimate liberation] should worship the Soul [Real Self]. Those who want both should worship both.
Dada Bhagwan
#30. Two great appetites of the soul - the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence - were fused with, and interpreted in the light of, a third - the urge to worship
Aldous Huxley
#31. Socrates woke to the ideal of dispassionate intelligence, Jesus to the ideal of passionate yet self-oblivious worship. Socrates urged intellectual integrity, Jesus integrity of will. Each, of course, though starting with a different emphasis, involved the other.
Olaf Stapledon
#33. God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.
Swami Vivekananda
#34. Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.
Dan B. Allender
#37. The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]
Ludwig Feuerbach
#39. Archeological and literary evidence makes it self-evident that different tribes, in different regions, at different times focused on different divine beings in their practice and worship.
C. Nico
#40. ... he is a self-made man who has come to worship his creator.
Ross Benson
#41. You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed
Sunday Adelaja
#42. If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.
Fulton J. Sheen
#43. As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. ("Cafe Endless: Spring Rain")
Nancy Holder
#44. People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look
like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Vanna Bonta
#45. If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.
T.F. Hodge
#46. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.
Clive Barker
#47. God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not He who cried, "God, where art Thou?" It was God who cried, "Adam, where art thou?"
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#48. Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it.
Ninya Tippett
#49. Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?"
"Because they're talented.
Anthony Horowitz
#50. Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
Maria Montessori
#51. Worship is invoking the divinity within. Meditation is awareness of divinity within. Enlightenment is realization of divinity within. Nirvana is being the divinity
Rashmit Kalra
#52. Witnessing the Vette's demise, the way Rick felt, there wasn't a king on Earth who he would bow to. No religious figure whose hand he'd kiss. No icon of history he'd worship. No one whose autograph he'd seek. He was becoming a legend, and he was alive to feel it happen.
Rich Hoffman
#53. Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation.
Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.
Zsuzsanna Budapest
#54. A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.
Abhijit Naskar
#55. An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete self-abnegation just like some Muslims who conseiders their sheikh as holy, some christians worship their (elder)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
#57. Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become ... helpless, impotent, and weak.
James Cameron
#58. True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.
Ray Hughes
#59. Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
Ramana Maharshi
#60. If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.
Charles Horton Cooley
#61. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is the really free man. He is free to have imagination.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#62. Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.
African Spir
#63. True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
J.C. Ryle
#64. When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.
Larry Crabb
#65. When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.
Paul David Tripp
#66. Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.
Rabindranath Tagore
#67. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of worship. Even the surrender done with relative knowledge (ignorance of one's own real self) can be called worship.
Dada Bhagwan
#69. Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma
#70. All glory to Adonai!
Great is thy love.
Great is thy mercy.
Great is thy faithfulness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#71. One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption.
Kelly M. Kapic
#72. Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.
Jacques Barzun
#73. The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.
John Stott
#74. The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself.
Pat Conroy
#76. Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
Will Herberg
#77. Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
Sarah Fielding
#78. The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
Peter Coyote
#79. I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
Baha'u'llah
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