"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."

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Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.11, Transaction Publishers

William Robertson Smith

#Sanctuary Quotes #Fancy Quotes #Worship Quotes

“When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.”
“Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...”
“When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.”
“Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.”
“Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.”
“Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.”
“Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.”

Source : Song: Creeps Like Me, Album: I Love Everybody
“The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.”

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