Idols Quotes

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

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.

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

A country without idols is nothing.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

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.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

Pharrell has always been my style idol.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

I have felt uncomfortable having people say, "You're my idol," because I want them to idolize God. I want them to idolize somebody that's done a lot.

Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

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

A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

DBSK are a very idol group that everyone adores.

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.