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• How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• America as did with Israel with its blessing has been turning away from God driving Him out of its public squares. Bring in idols in its place and calling what is evil good and what is good evil. ... The glory of the city on the hill is fading and America now stands in danger of impending judgment, and we all know it.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Blessing, Squares, Israel

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• There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Boxing, Guy

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• Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to do as they please and make decisions off of pleasures, feelings or emotion? It is because they have not been taken captive by the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone does not rule in that life, there are rivals on the throne.

  David Wilkerson

  Jesus, Taken, People

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• I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Long, Performances, Objections

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Atoms, Temples

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• It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Kindness, Pride, Self

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• I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

  Billy Idol

  Long, Care, Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Christian is an idol breaker.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Choices

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• A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Choices

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• When I was growing up, my favorite player was Reggie Jackson - and I never got the opportunity to get an autograph from Reggie. I was so frustrated. I mean, he was my idol. And I couldn't get no autograph. I would go through punishment waiting on him (after games) because he was always the last guy to come out. And I would go back home with no autograph.

  Rickey Henderson

  Growing Up, Home, Mean

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• ...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Mean, Winning

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• I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!

  The Weeknd

  School, Singing, Would Be

  "The Dark Knight Returns: A Conversation With the Weeknd". Interview with Anupa Mistry, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2015.

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• The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, but above all we see this in mankind Man is not in charge today, money is in charge, money rules. God our Father did not give the task of caring for the earth to money, but to us, to men and women: we have this task! Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.'

  Pope Francis

  Father, Caring, Men

  "Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

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• If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of "American Idol" through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Political, Tools, Why Not

  "Television Debates Are Antiquated" by Ruzwana Bashir, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2012.

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• The next stage of Sebastian Vettel Formula One career will be spent with Scuderia Ferrari and for Sebastian Vettel Scuderia Ferrari means the dream of a lifetime has come true, When I was a kid, Michael Schumacher in the red car was my greatest idol and now it 's an incredible honor to finally get the chance to drive a Ferrari.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Dream, Mean, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.

  Lester Bangs

  Dog, Hero, Tears

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.253, Anchor

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• The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Gentleman, Quality, Amusement

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.48, e-artnow

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• It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Egypt, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.180, Harvard University Press

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• Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Fall, People, Knees

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• And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Democracies Have, Self

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• Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fighting, Men, Honor

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• Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Girl, Dream, Mind

  "Roberto Cavalli's Photo Album" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 24, 2008.

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• Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!

  William Ross Wallace

  Cry, There Is No God, Sod

  William Ross Wallace (1851). “Meditations in America, and Other Poems”, p.93

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• Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Morning, Years, Bills

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