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• Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

  J. C. Ryle

  Lasts, Firsts, Bows

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• If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

  Craig S. Keener

  Believe, Ability, Feels

  Craig S. Keener (2001). “Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today”, p.27, Baker Books

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• The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.

  Sergio Aguero

  Real, Winning, Emotional

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• Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

  Adrian Rogers

  Values

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• An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Mistake, Book

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• Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Heaven, Together, Impossible

  Samuel Rutherford (1845). “Religious Letters”, p.138

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• If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

  Timothy Keller

  Identity, Meaning Of Life, Fundamentals

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.12, Penguin

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• Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Comfort, Approval, Daily Life

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• We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Loss, Favors, Do Not Fear

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• Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Wisdom, Heart, Men

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.118

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• It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

  Martial

  Gold, Form, Idolatry

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• All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

  Honore de Balzac

  Noble, Want, Proud

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• Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Moving, Hypocrite, Class

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• God keeps a niche
  In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
  He brake them to our faces, and denied
  That our close kisses should impair their white,--
  I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
  The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,
  New Memnons singing in the great God-light.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Kissing, Light, Dust

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.81

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• Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Mean, Sight, Hands

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475

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• As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

  Shana Alexander

  Easter, Real, Eggs

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• It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

  Reza Aslan

  Islamic, Years, Hatred

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• A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

  Ludwig von Mises

  Exercise, People, Mind

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Magic

  "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Circus Magazine, April 1975.

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• I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Father, Games

  Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I would never discredit anyone that is working their way up on a show like "American Idol." I think they work so hard overcoming all of the obstacles to get on the show in the first place and then every week they are judged in front of all of America... I give them complete credit for getting up on stage... I think they deserve all the success that they get.

  Mandy Moore

  Thinking, America, Giving

  "Mandy Moore and Chris Klein Talk American Dreamz". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 19, 2006.

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• [My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Son, Play

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• One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.

  Jacob Latimore

  Years, Firsts, Bigs

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• But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Function, Our Lives, Ifs

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.37, David C Cook

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• To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Phrases, Consequence

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.42, David C Cook

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