Idols Quotes - Page 25

• Dead metaphors make strong idols.

  Marcia Falk

  Strong, Metaphor

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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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• 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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• I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

  Ma Huateng

  Jobs, Thinking

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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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• The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

  Timothy Keller

  Culture, Addresses, Persons

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

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• If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

  Timothy Keller

  Running, Used, Stills

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• It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Kings, Giving Up

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• ...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Teacher, Lying, Individual

  Shirley MacLaine (1987). “It's all in the playing”, Bantam

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• These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol. But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow.

  Britney Spears

  Jobs, Kids, Thinking

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

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• An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Carrie

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• Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

  Willie Aames

  Mean, Magazines, Why Me

  "How Willie Aames Went From Teen Heartthrob To Cruise Ship Director" by Lynn Okura, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Trying, President

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• The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Dream, Stars

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

  Craig Ferguson

  Citizens, Firsts, Election

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• Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Reason, Source

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.43, David C Cook

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