Top 100 Quotes About An Idol
#1. What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
Ernesto Cardenal
#2. People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
Clayton Christensen
#3. My parents inspire me every day. They are both incredible people that I love and look up to every day. Industry wise, I love what Justin Timberlake has done with his career. He's truly an idol to me, not only as a performer, but as a person as well.
Max Schneider
#4. He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.
Miles Watson
#6. Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!
Akiva Ben Joseph
#7. Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states.
Monks Of New Skete
#8. If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.
Timothy Keller
#9. There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.
Nigel Lythgoe
#10. Shelley was an idol of mine
and many
an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.
Connie Stevens
#11. Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.
Woody Allen
#12. Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
Walter Lippmann
#13. Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain
#14. Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life. Instead, ask My Spirit to guide you moment by moment.
Sarah Young
#15. Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol," he points out. What's worse, to the "north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness." (Hi, Canada!)
Sarah Vowell
#16. Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.
Robert Anton Wilson
#17. I made such an idol of my beautiful Osborne, and now it turns out he has feet of clay.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#18. Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
Stanley Hauerwas
#19. It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#20. The most brazen lie of all is the lie people tell themselves: "I have nothing to worry about from the wrath of God. My God is a God of love." If that is your thought, your god is an idol.
R.C. Sproul
#21. Beauty attached to God is sacrament, cut off from God it becomes an idol.
Frithjof Schuon
#22. Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.
Joachim Peiper
#24. An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
Benjamin Whichcote
#26. Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?
Joseph Sobran
#27. A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
St. Jerome
#28. People who have seen my movies don't look at me like an idol. They just give me a lot of love and respect.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#29. I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
Katy B
#30. When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.
Abigail Disney
#31. Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.
Roberto Cavalli
#32. The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.
James Luther Adams
#33. They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
Lester Bangs
#34. A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.
Susan Sontag
#36. Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
Arthur Eddington
#37. Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.
Dewey Redman
#38. I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
Susan Sontag
#40. Evil, let it never be mistaken, is real. But it is inferior. It is parasitic. It is incomplete. The moment we take counsel from it, become overwhelmed by it, or put it on an equal footing with the Good of God, it will have become something entirely more dangerous. It becomes an idol.
Tod Worner
#41. My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn't have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#42. I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.
John Logan
#43. Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
Marina Abramovic
#44. When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
Namie Amuro
#45. When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
Namie Amuro
#46. What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, q a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes r speechless idols!
Anonymous
#47. According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.
Nancy Pearcey
#48. A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.
Howard Thurman
#49. Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
Hernan Cortes
#50. I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.
Idries Shah
#51. Outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied
Joseph Conrad
#52. If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.
Joel Osteen
#53. I cannot replace an idol by turning away from it. I must turn toward something. As
Zondervan Publishing
#54. In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#55. An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#57. A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
Jack Dempsey
#58. An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.
Joseph Addison
#59. The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.
Ron Pearce
#60. Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,
very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.
Julius Charles Hare
#61. Success in ministry is important, but when I assume it is all-important, I have made it an idol ... It is possible to make such an idol of success that you prize it more than God.
Brad Bigney
#62. People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.
Namie Amuro
#63. One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#64. When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
Pia Toscano
#65. People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!"
Doug Stanhope
#66. Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#68. Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.
Jerry Rice
#69. For all this, man is embodied and trusting in his senses; he had sooner believe in a sensible improbability than in an insensible uncertainty, that is, sooner worship an idol than grapple with the philosophers.
Neel Burton
#70. Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing
Aamir Khan
#71. Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
Democritus
#72. When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.
Timothy Keller
#74. To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.
Philip Graham Ryken
#75. The problem with this approach is that it makes an idol out of the will, something God never intended. Just
Henry Cloud
#76. Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship.
Robert M. Price
#77. My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.
Charlotte Bronte
#78. Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.
Dada Bhagwan
#79. To find Me and hear My voice, you must seek Me above all else. Anything that you desire more than Me becomes an idol.
Sarah Young
#80. Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
R.C. Sproul
#81. Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.
Eric Cantona
#82. You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
William G. Boykin
#83. We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.
Blaise Pascal
#85. The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Voltaire
#86. A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.
R.C. Sproul
#87. Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#88. The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Sergio Aguero
#89. Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.
Mel Lawrenz
#90. You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
Stella Benson
#91. We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
John Ortberg
#92. An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.
Nancy Pearcey
#93. The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.
Karl Popper
#94. How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?
Natasha Leggero
#95. What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.
Peter Rollins
#96. Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.
Jonathan Krohn
#97. I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.
Andy Lau
#98. Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.
Bo Bice
#99. A successful day is one in which you have stayed in touch with Me, even if many things remain undone at the end of the day. Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life.
Sarah Young
#100. Fame is in the eyes of the beholder; that meant that even though the beholder thinks their famous, to millions of other people they are not...
Whereas some will see you as an idol and well-known when you do not see yourself as either.
Melina Turner
