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• Last night, President Bush gave a prime-time press conference. It was such a big deal that Fox decided to preempt American Idol. Which made sense to me, you don't want too many amateurs on in one night.

  David Letterman

  Night, President, Want

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• Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

  Philip Sidney

  Strong, Men, Honor

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• Neuter discourse is a false idol.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Discourse

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strange, Fame, Endure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.5

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• Even our pets can become idols.

  Billy Graham

  Choices, Pet

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

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Choices

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• The Christian is an idol breaker.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Choices

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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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• 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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• 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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• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That’s what makes me interested in them, that they didn’t present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  Imelda Staunton

  Jobs, Actresses, Adore

  "Vera Drake: Imelda Staunton about Mike Leigh". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. February 9, 2005.

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• Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

  D. A. Carson

  Brother, Swings, Soul

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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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• 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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• It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Jesus, Junk

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• Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.

  Jerry Rice

  Air, Dallas, Never Forget

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• The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Real, Islamic, Reflection

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Family, Success

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• There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.

  Clement Attlee

  Thinking, Race, Leader

  Clement Richard Attlee (1940). “War comes to Britain: speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. R. Atlee, M.P.”

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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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