Idolatries Quotes

#1. And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said

Christopher Columbus

#2. What is stripped away is not our humanity but our idolatries, not faith but our false hopes, not meaning but out illusions. Dying in order to live.

Charles Ringma

#3. Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

Cornelius Plantinga

#4. The struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

Paul David Tripp

#5. We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.

Carl R. Trueman

#6. Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

Pat Buchanan

#7. You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.

Tara Brach

#8. The best model of a cat is another cat ... , specially the same cat.

Arturo Rosenblueth

#9. Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

Alfred Hitchcock

#10. Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

William Congreve

#11. In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?

Robert Harris

#12. This room is the strangest thing Melanie has ever seen. Of course, she's starting to realise that she hasn't seen all that much, but there are more things here of more baffling variety than she would have thought the whole world could hold.

M.R. Carey

#13. ...music is the key to life

D.M.X.

#14. I'm retired from the daredevil business.

Felix Baumgartner

#15. Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?

J.K. Rowling

#16. You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.

Errol Morris

#17. Since then, we'd used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.

Ernest Cline

#18. You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.

Eileen Pollack