Quotes About False Idols

#1. Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Pope Francis

#3. I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Desmond Tutu

#4. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.

Michael Connelly

#5. Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..

Bob Dylan

#6. 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

#7. Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. We do not turn from our false gods to become God's children. We turn from them because we are.

Kelly Minter

#9. It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

Marjane Satrapi

#10. The triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Plato

#11. No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

Paulo Coelho

#12. People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

Dougray Scott

#13. Neuter discourse is a false idol.

Richard M. Weaver

#14. 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

#15. Write. Publish. Repeat.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#16. No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

Margaret Cho

#17. There are Idols which we call Idols of the Market. For Men associate by Discourse, and a false and improper Imposition of Words strangely possesses the Understanding, for Words absolutely force the Understanding, and put all Things into Confusion.

Francis Bacon

#18. I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.

Jessi Colter

#19. All things in God are spontaneous.

Gottfried Leibniz

#20. One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

Shirley Maclaine

#21. The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly
because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it
perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.

Martin Luther

#22. It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

George W. Bush

#23. As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Cleveland Amory

#24. You shouldn't be afraid of dying, Sarah - everyone does it. The only thing to be scared of is not living before you do.

Emma Chase

#25. The stories you know define the boundaries of your understanding.

Mervin Ignacio

#26. 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