Idols Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

  John Owen

  Home, Son, Men

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.40

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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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• 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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• ...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

  Pope Francis

  Drama, Men, People

  "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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• Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Desire, Stones, Worship

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• Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Play, People

  "Dave Grohl Just Continues To Dominate" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. January 11, 2012.

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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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• Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sovereign, Conception

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• When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

  Pope Francis

  Adore, Money And Power

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.108, SPCK

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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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• 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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• 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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• Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, People, Religion

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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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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• I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.

  Tracy Morgan

  Funny, Watches, Karaoke

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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