Quotes About Idol

People tell me I'm their idol and a huge inspiration - that's really surreal.

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern powers of production, and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Every man makes a god of his own desire

To Sachin, the man we all want to be.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

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

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.

The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.

O take heed of this: pride turns an ordinance into an idol. God accepts our fasts and prayers when used for humilia tion, but abhors them when we bring them for our justification.

8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid [trust in me]: have not I told thee from that time [ from the ancient times from the beginning; see verse 7], and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses [Israel's calling, stewardship]. Is there a God beside me [is there an idol that is a God like Me]? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.