self-worship

Full attention, full devotion with our hearts are what the Lord asks of us in worship, otherwise, we fall into the subtle sin of self-worship.

When self-esteem is contaminated with self-worship and false humility, our relationships become not wholesome but guarded, superficial, and obsequious; we am mere wolves, snarling and maneuvering for our place in the pack.

The idolatry of self-worship and self-love calls for the throwing off of moral restraints.

To reduce this imperative of solidarity to a series of external works of mercy is to confirm the Church, especially in the affluent West, in the bourgeois complacency of self-worship and self-service.

But when the satire turns into self-worship, even Ed wears out his welcome.

A certain touch of Manicheism [...] is discernible enough [...] To my own surmise, it appears as if this Dandaical Sect were but a new modification, adapted to the new time, of that primeval Superstition, Self-Worship, which Zerdusht, Quangfoutchee, Mohamed, and others strove rather to subordinate and restrain than to eradicate; and which only in the purer forms of Religion has been altogether rejected.

The quote in the book that best summed up my feelings was from Arthur Ficke, when he called Edna, ``the oddest mixture of genius and childish vanity, open-mindedness and blind self-worship, that I have ever known.''

(4) While bourgeois Victorian values of solitude, nature, and family "self-worship" were widely propagated, even among the middle classes themselves, older saturnalian pleasures survived in gambling, ribald humor, and a tendency to bacchanalia that remained strong in 1900.

We tend to cross the line by creating golden calves of self-worship or exalting mortals as "princes" and "caesars." Yet the Holy One bids us a different crossing over--over the Jordan, over to peace and purity, and over to graciously giving and receiving unconditional love.

Like the manic offspring of Iggy Pop and Jim Carrey, would-be iconic frontman Howlin' Pelle Almquist fed the adoring crowd a series of one-liners from the egomaniac's guide to self-worship: 'I feel like the king tonight.'

This, to Beaudoin, also reflected upon the American trend of self-worship and individualism (Beaudoin, 1999, p.3).

Chris Hedges would issue a stern warning: "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." Self-worship requires that we turn a blind eye on "the murder and repression done in our name." It means that we dismiss how others might see us and perceive our actions in the world.

And Gibson gives a real grandstanding, school-hero-type performance, cloaked in self-worship. I have no feeling at all for Gibson, for his compendiously handsome film-star face or his heroic, sturdy body, but Signs reveals something interesting about him: He can't do comedy.

The renovators' intent, they say, is to destroy Catholicism and establish a new religion of self-worship, and a major step in the campaign is the stripping of God's houses of their beauty and the elimination of any sense of transcendence.