Idols Quotes

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.

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.

I'm your idol, the highest title, Numero Uno, I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know, And understand, I got the gift of speech, And it's a blessin, so listen to the lesson I preach.

I try to reach out to my idols.

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

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

I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

A lot of people who wanted to audition for Idol have asked me: “What should I do?” or “How to I prepare myself?” I always told them: “Just go in and believe in yourself.”

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

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

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.

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

You're still my idol.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

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.

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.