Top 50 Quotes About Idol Worship
#1. I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think I've gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.
Kevin Corrigan
#2. I'm fairly certain I'm having my first truly religious experience, and it's probably a very bad thing that it's happening in a church, but it's over a sculpture. Mental note: Add idol worship to your list for confession.
Lisa Desrochers
#3. If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.
T.F. Hodge
#4. In the Kural there is a chapter on invocation to God. But there is no place in it for principle of idol worship.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#5. These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up ... I cannot be on the way up again.
John Lennon
#6. I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.
Idries Shah
#7. Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
Vance Havner
#8. My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.
Emraan Hashmi
#9. The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stray from morality to idol worship,
creating a world in which a murderer can be forgiven and sent to heaven, whereas a loving and caring skeptic would be cast into damnation.
David G. McAfee
#10. As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice guy in private. I mean I like the guy; he's a terrific writer. I've published two of his books. Baraka is one of these fundamentalists who is prone to idol worship.
Ishmael Reed
#11. You've built yourselves a god from silver and gold.
How does that differ from idol worship, except
Those people worship one god and you a hundred?
Dante Alighieri
#13. Where am I?" you ask. Where you are is where the things you've denied worshipping have taken you.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
Jeanette Winterson
#15. 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
#16. When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#18. Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"
Swami Vivekananda
#19. 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
#20. Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
N. T. Wright
#23. You don't really get to choose. We worship you, and that makes you our God.
Brandon Sanderson
#24. One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
Swami Vivekananda
#25. Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship
AainaA-Ridtz
#26. Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol ...
Alan Watts
#27. Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.
Swami Vivekananda
#28. If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God.
Jim George
#31. There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.
Andrew Carnegie
#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. What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.
Jon Foreman
#34. The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.
Miles Watson
#36. The eternal, the infinite, and unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as "my god" or "our god.
Eckhart Tolle
#37. 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
#38. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.
Swami Vivekananda
#39. Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol. All who worship him are abominable idolaters and Christ did not rise again from death to life nor did he ascend into heaven.
Matthew Hammond
#40. Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?
Joseph Sobran
#41. When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.
Abigail Disney
#43. This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.
Swami Vivekananda
#44. It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.
T.F. Hodge
#45. The fear of man, the trust in man, the deference to the opinion of man, is the merest worship of a rag-stuffed idol.
George MacDonald
#46. Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.
Anthony Liccione
#47. The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er that idol be,
Help me to tear it from thy throne,
And worship only thee.
So shall my walk be close with God,
Calm and serene my frame;
So purer light shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb.
William Cowper
#48. External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.
T.F. Hodge
#49. 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
#50. Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
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