Quotes About Idol

The greatest idol I will never truly remove is self.

An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.

One of the most dangerous delusions for each of us is the delusion of our own sovereignty. And one of our most dangerous idols is the idol of control.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket out. Here was the vehicle I could use to rise out of misery, to become famous, to be looked up to, to be liked, to be admired, to be envied.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Joseph never worshipped any idol in Egypt, but maintained his faith in the God of Abraham.

Even worship is less important than Jesus. In fact, worship can become an idol in the church. Some Christians probably worship worship more than they worship Jesus. Some worship leaders probably worship worship-leading more than they worship Jesus. It was never meant to be an industry, a genre in Walmart, a karaoke show on Sunday. If you really want to lead worship, learn to wonder.

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goatsí hair on its head.

The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.