Idols Quotes - Page 29

• When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

  Abigail Disney

  Worship, Ultimate

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• 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

  Doe, Worship, Made

  James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.

  Sathya Sai Baba

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• When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.

  Rob Lowe

  Taken

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• The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Memories, Flower

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• And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Football, Kissing

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books

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• How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

  Pope Francis

  Today, Poverty, Faces

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.109, SPCK

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• I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

  Kim Him-chan

  Agency, Training, Groups

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• We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

  Helen Keller

  Appreciation, Ignorance, Self

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.190, Book Tree

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• Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sarcastic, Men, Battle

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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• Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Thinking, Needs, Protect

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• I was on Ghetto Idol. We didn't have any of the stuff they have now.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Ghetto, Stuff

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• Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing

  Aamir Khan

  Character, Developing, Uniqueness

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• People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

  Karen Kingsbury

  People, Kind, Praise

  Karen Kingsbury (2014). “Fifteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, Dream, Broken

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• Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.

  Connie Stevens

  Powerful, Mind, Talent

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• I only have one idol: John Lennon.

  Michael Hirst

  Lennon

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• Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Men, World

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• I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

  Buzz Aldrin

  Watches, American Idol

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• First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

  John Milton

  Kings, Sacrifice, Fire

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 01”

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• [T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.

  Timothy Keller

  Views, Grace, Alternatives

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.61, Penguin

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• We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Age, Charity

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

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• Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

  Victor Hugo

  Moving, Dollars, Muscles

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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• So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn't true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Blessing, Thinking

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• Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Kings, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1169, Manonmani Publishers

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