55 Quotes About Idol

You blast me open and then You stand back and watch My feeble attempts To deal with myself. Where do I turn In my now desperate need for love? You are not there. There is no one else to turn to For I have made you my Everything. And in my exhaustion From my desperate moments,I slip into myself And there I find God waiting for me To love Him to love me to love you Because you are the matchmaker. I thought He was leading me to you But, surprise surprise, You were leading me to Him.

Fundamentalism is a lot like idolatry because it renders truth into something stagnant and lifeless. For the Christian fundamentalist, God becomes something that can be understood in the mind- a conceptual idol.

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

I don't have an idol. I don't like imitations.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.

Ideals are good to give direction to our lives. However, when ideals become an end in themselves, they become a problem rather than the solution. The ideal worship has caused as much destruction to the world as the idol worship.

External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.

I can pretend to be my own god, but I have an awfully hard time pretending that failing to be a god didn’t happen.