Quotes About Your Idols

#1. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

Gustave Flaubert

#2. The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

Timothy Keller

#4. It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

Drew Goddard

#5. Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

Hakim Bey

#6. Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

Francis Picabia

#7. You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not know of the doctrine.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

Meg White

#10. It's dangerous to meet your idols. You'll always be disappointed.

Karina Halle

#11. Work until your idols become your rivals

G-Dragon

#12. It's great to get to work with your idols.

Joel Kinnaman

#13. If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.

Nick Fradiani

#15. When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

J.D. Greear

#16. What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

Timothy Keller

#17. The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

Swami Vivekananda

#18. Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

Samuel Rutherford

#19. God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Chanakya

#20. Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

Adrian Rogers

#21. Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Washington Allston

#22. If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

Miley Cyrus

#23. Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

Dwight L. Moody

#24. The more you make Jesus the treasure of your heart, the less room there will be in your life for idols.

Ken Sande

#25. The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized 1 or 2 strengths.

Timothy Ferriss

#26. 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

#27. Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol.

Wiz Khalifa

#28. Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!

Anton Szandor LaVey

#29. Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols.

Phil Vischer

#30. The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention.

Jack Henry Abbott

#31. I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played ... Everybody wants to be like their father.

Cam Newton

#32. You don't need to worship idols of the Virgin Mary, the Christ, or the Buddha. You can if you want to; if it feels good, do it. Your own body is a manifestation of God,

Miguel Ruiz

#33. The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

Sophia Amoruso

#34. I'm your idol, the highest title, Numero Uno,
I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know,
And understand, I got the gift of speech,
And it's a blessin, so listen to the lesson I preach ...

Special Ed

#35. By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Rumi

#36. The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead book. It is alive. Open it carefully because the new truth that might come leaping out at you could change your life forever.

Mel White

#37. Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.

Shams Tabrizi

#38. 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