Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

He worships God who knows him.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart, to the finest verses possible chanted by the wicked.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.