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Quotes About Idols

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
~ Chanakya
When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.
~ John Hagee
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
~ Isaac Watts
The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
~ D. A. Carson
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God
~ Elyse Fitzpatrick
God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.
~ Billy Graham
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
~ Emile M. Cioran
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.
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
Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.
~ Sophie Thompson
Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things
~ Mark Driscoll
It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
~ Meg Ryan
Seems hats have been on topOf all the stages comings and goingsHelping us remember heroes and idols
~ Richard L. Ratliff
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
~ Janet McTeer
Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols.
~ Edward T. Welch
others, and so on. And anything that is opposed to God in our lives is actually one of the many gods of the kingdom of earth. You will always be running scared if you worship other gods, because idols can't deliver on their promises. In the Old Testament, the choice before
~ Edward T. Welch
A lot of players will tell you, 'When I was a kid, I watched Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron, Magic, and I wanted to be just like them.' For me, it wasn't like that at all.
~ Giannis Antetokounmpo
I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf'... And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.
~ Marcel Dionne