Top 43 Quotes About False Gods
#1. Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier
#2. False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.
Brennan Manning
#3. Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#4. Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.
W. H. Auden
#5. The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
Robert W. Service
#6. We give our entire lives on the altar of false gods - money, sex, reputation, work, etc. - and God continues to pursue us. He continues to chase us. He continues to woo us. That is the God of the Bible.
Jefferson Bethke
#8. Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.
Franz Grillparzer
#9. If you worship false gods, the ripples bring a little of hell to earth.
Kyle Idleman
#10. R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,' she called. 'Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is dark and full of terrors.
George R R Martin
#11. He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods - the gods of human manufacturing - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do.
Brennan Manning
#12. The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the
biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.
Allen Ginsberg
#13. We do not turn from our false gods to become God's children. We turn from them because we are.
Kelly Minter
#14. Do you have a problem with us hunting down and killing a god from your pantheon?"
"If it is a god, then you cannot kill it, and if you can kill it, then it is not a god. I do not mourn the death of false gods.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#15. The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#16. False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
Alexander Herzen
#17. Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors ...
Spencer W. Kimball
#18. The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.
Max Anders
#19. Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ
D. A. Carson
#20. an uncertain mythology
in which one hears the names
when the wind stops
of all the false gods
Jean Follain
#21. The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Jules Michelet
#22. What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification - worshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things.
Billy Graham
#23. No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.
C.S. Lewis
#24. Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
Orson Scott Card
#25. Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
David Harsanyi
#26. The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.
Luther Burbank
#28. The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.
Isaac Newton
#29. We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: "It is appointed unto men once to die" [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].
Billy Graham
#30. That's when I started to leave it behind. I realized that I got my entire validation from women. Women became like gods to me, but false gods.
Neil Strauss
#31. We need to create the kind of kingdom-shaped culture within our churches that constantly shines the light of Christ wherever these false gods exist in our own affections.
Russell D. Moore
#32. Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.
Voltaire
#33. Don't interfere with false gods, you'll get the gold paint all over your hands.
Margaret Atwood
#34. The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.
Swami Vivekananda
#35. Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.
Scott Lynch
#36. You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.
Charles R. Swindoll
#37. Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.
Matthew Arnold
#38. Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.
Richard J. Mouw
#39. Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. She had made reason and common sense her gods.
She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.
Mary Balogh
#41. We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere.
Albert Camus
#42. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.
Joel Osteen
#43. There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.
Max Muller
