Top Idols Quotes Collection
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The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.Collection: Idols
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.Collection: Idols
I always had an idea for what I wanted to do in the future and throughout my career. This wasn't, like, me figuring out what to do after Idol. I've always known the steps in what I had to do to get where I was.Collection: Idols
Whatever you love more than God is your idol.Collection: Idols
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.Collection: Idols
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.Collection: Idols
Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.Collection: Idols
Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.Collection: Idols
Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.Collection: Idols
Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!Collection: Idols
Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!Collection: Idols
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.Collection: Idols
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.Collection: Idols
Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?Collection: Idols
Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.Collection: Idols
Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.Collection: Idols
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.Collection: Idols
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.Collection: Idols
You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.Collection: Idols
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.Collection: Idols
To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.Collection: Idols
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.Collection: Idols
The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.Collection: Idols
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true GodCollection: Idols
I got to work with [Carlos] Santana, who's been my idol forever. When I was 18, I got up with him in Australia and jammed with him. That was an amazing moment because I got up in front of my hometown crowd.Collection: Idols
No one's body is polluted so as to endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you were to lift my hand to your idol and so make me offer against my will, I would still be guiltless in the sight of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all things. If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me.Collection: Idols
When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.Collection: Idols
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.Collection: Idols
I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.Collection: Idols
It's an honour and a privilege to meet people who look at you as their idol , they actually lose weight and gain muscle because of you. I can only tell them thank you for letting me be that person for them.Collection: Idols
Work until your idols become your rivalsCollection: Idols
I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way.Collection: Idols
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.Collection: Idols
If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of "American Idol" through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?Collection: Idols
It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.Collection: Idols
"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.Collection: Idols
People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.Collection: Idols
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.Collection: Idols
That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.Collection: Idols
My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!Collection: Idols
It's cool to have a personal relationship with someone who's your idol. Someone whose music you used to constantly listen to, when you were hoping you could make it one day.Collection: Idols
Michael Jackson has been my idol since before I could even walk.Collection: Idols
Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad thingsCollection: Idols
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!Collection: Idols
Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?Collection: Idols
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.Collection: Idols
To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.Collection: Idols
Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.Collection: Idols
We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.Collection: Idols
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.Collection: Idols