Norman O. Brown Quotes

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

My family is very religious.

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

My mom is very religious and she said, 'Whatever you think about all the time, that's what you worship.' If that's the case I'd like everyone to pop open their Diet Coke cans and turn to page 37 of their People Magazines. In this holy scripture, we read the parable of Ms. Valerie Bertinelli.

Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!

God did not die; he was transformed into money

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

The god of the world's leading religion.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

Some kneel and lie to God.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.