Idols Quotes - Page 17

• No one's body is polluted so as to endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you were to lift my hand to your idol and so make me offer against my will, I would still be guiltless in the sight of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all things. If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me.

  Saint Lucy

  Sight, Hands, Judging

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• I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way.

  AJ Lee

  Want, Way, Feels

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• The idol is the expression of religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Expression, Idol Worship, Idolatry

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• I think we’re at the stage where
  we’re not musicians but not idols
  either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

  G-Dragon

  Thinking, Musician, Way

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• Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

  Peter Kreeft

  Sex, Stones, Woods

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• Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

  Karl Barth

  Doubt, World, Might

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• I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols. If I can take a little of each player's game and make it my own, I would be very happy.

  Neymar

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Player, Games

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• While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we’re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It’s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance

  Mark Driscoll

  Struggle, People, Criticism

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

  Mark Driscoll

  Good Things, Be Good, Bad Things

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• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Music, Thinking, Guitar

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• Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

  Joseph Sobran

  Evil, Doe, Anarchy

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• We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

  Pope Gregory I

  Life, Wonder, Born

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• When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments of a social and economic system, which is characterized, better yet dominated, by profound inequalities. So we discard whatever is not useful to this logic; it is this attitude that discards children and older people, and is now affecting the young.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Children, Simple

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• You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to unleash your affection, to exhault something or someone above all else. So don't waste your worship on some little god, squandering your birthright on idols made only with human imagination. Guard your worship. And carefully evaluate all potential takers.

  Louie Giglio

  Opportunity, Worship You, Imagination

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• I mean, I take that with the biggest amount of pride there could possibly be because I have so many idols of gymnasts that were before me. I think having perspective now on how hard it is for all of the starts to line up for something like that to happen, I'm just very proud of that moment and that whole atmosphere.

  Kim Zmeskal

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

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• Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Purpose

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Home, where life makes up its mind”

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• Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him-perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol-and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. He calls you.

  Beth Moore

  Letting Go, Lying, Hands

  Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender”, p.69, B&H Publishing Group

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• My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

  Shakira

  Dad, Inspiration, Hero

  "Colombian gold". Interview With Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2002.

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• What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Pain, Struggle, Ignorance

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• We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Home, Heart

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• 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

  Home, Clothes, Machines

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

  Cato the Elder

  Men, Cato, Asks

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• When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Names, Letters, Hats

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

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• Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their own idols to represent God until Jesus returns. The religion of fundamentalism is idolatry.

  Mel White

  Christian, Jesus, Israel

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• Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Heart, Men, Israel

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