Idols Quotes - Page 12

• If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Hands, Mind

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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• The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.

  Peter Rollins

  God, Religious, Reality

  Peter, Rollins (2006). “How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church”, p.12, Paraclete Press

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• Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Father, Black And White

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• By the work one knows the workman.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Work, Army

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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• As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Pride, Long, Delight

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• Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, War, Jealous

  "Religion: A Dialogue" by Arthur Schopenhauer,

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• We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.

  Leo Lowenthal

  Time, Hero, Past

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• On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

  Rob Sheffield

  Jobs, Zero, Skills

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• I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

  Melina Marchetta

  Soccer, Mother, Running

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  M. Ward

  Watches, Singers, Sometimes

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• I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

  Corey Clark

  Moving, Years, Careers

  "Corey Clark says Paula Abdul 'told me she loved me'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. May 6, 2005.

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• Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.

  Eric Burdon

  Silly, Kids, Rocks

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• 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

  Play, Piano, Keys

  "Katy B: Soundtrack of my life" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has confessed that until recently, he thought the 16-year-old fellow tween idol [Justin Bieber] was a female. 'I only heard Justin Bieber for the first time two weeks ago. I genuinely thought it was a woman singing. I'd never heard it before. Is it big in England yet?'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Stars, Two, Years

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Bieber: I thought he was a girl". marquee.blogs.cnn.com. June 24th, 2010.

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• Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Inspirational, Heart, Eye

  "Nigel Lythgoe officially returning to ‘American Idol’" by Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. August 05, 2010.

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• I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

  Jason Bateman

  Thinking, Years, Tvs

  "Jason Bateman: 'I've got a great deal of dirt on Jennifer Aniston'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

  Robert Gordis

  Creativity, Past, Order

  Robert Gordis (1960). “A Faith for Moderns”

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• Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

  Baroness Orczy

  Fall, Heart, Feet

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “I Will Repay”, p.56, House of Stratus

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• Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Thinking, Knowing, Hips

  "Amanda Seyfried: Young People on Instagram Are 'Sad,' Taylor Swift Is Hip" by Rachel McRady, www.usmagazine.com. March 24, 2015.

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• We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Things In Life, Needs

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

  Rumi

  Self, Easy, Break

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• When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

  Aravind Adiga

  Running, Growing Up, Party

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• The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  People, Goes On, Want

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• I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.

  Bo Bice

  Past, Careers, People

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