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Image of J. C. Ryle
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
- J. C. Ryle
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Image of Samuel Rutherford
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
- Samuel Rutherford
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Image of R. C. Sproul
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
- R. C. Sproul
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Image of Eddie Murphy
That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived.
- Eddie Murphy
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Image of Evgeny Morozov
For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.
- Evgeny Morozov
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Image of Spencer W. Kimball
We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...
- Spencer W. Kimball
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Image of Desmond Tutu
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
- Desmond Tutu
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Timothy Keller
Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
- Timothy Keller
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Image of Samuel Rutherford
Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.
- Samuel Rutherford
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Image of Henry Rollins
Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.
- Henry Rollins
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Image of John Owen
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
- John Owen
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Image of N. T. Wright
You become like what you worship
- N. T. Wright
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Kanye West
Pharrell has always been my style idol.
- Kanye West
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Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Paul Valery
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation."
- Paul Valery
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Image of Timothy Keller
The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.
- Timothy Keller
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Image of Daniel J. Boorstin
Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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Image of Toni Braxton
When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.
- Toni Braxton
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Image of J. C. Ryle
Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
- J. C. Ryle
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Image of Timothy Keller
Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.
- Timothy Keller
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Image of Sathya Sai Baba
God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.
- Sathya Sai Baba
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Image of Gordon Brown
Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential
- Gordon Brown
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Image of Shane Claiborne
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
- Shane Claiborne
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Image of Michael Caine
I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.
- Michael Caine
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Image of Margaret Cho
I had been taking various lessons. I've also had a lot of incredible singers give me a ton of great advice. From Cyndi Lauper, who kind of taught me the basics, and I've also worked with Bird. She's a tremendous coach and she often coaches the contestants on 'American Idol.' I've had a great amount of support.
- Margaret Cho
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Image of Woody Allen
Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.
- Woody Allen
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Image of Agatha Christie
And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
- Agatha Christie
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Image of Andrew Carnegie
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.
- Andrew Carnegie
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Image of Arthur Hugh Clough
No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.
- Arthur Hugh Clough
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Image of Joel Kinnaman
It's great to get to work with your idols.
- Joel Kinnaman
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Image of Neymar
My greatest idol– I’'ve always told everyone – was Robinho as he was from Santos and I was always following him, so I'’m a great fan. Among others, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Kaká. Many of them.
- Neymar
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Image of PJ Harvey
When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.
- PJ Harvey
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Image of Noam Chomsky
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all.
- Noam Chomsky
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Image of Tom DeLonge
I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.
- Tom DeLonge
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Image of Richard M. Weaver
Neuter discourse is a false idol.
- Richard M. Weaver
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Image of Miley Cyrus
If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.
- Miley Cyrus
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Image of Tom DeLonge
But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
- Tom DeLonge
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Image of Johnny Marr
Anything that's ever gotten on the charts as a result of "American Idol" or "The X Factor" in the UK. It's born out of karaoke culture. It's been a long time coming, but it's absolutely affected radio.
- Johnny Marr
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Image of Seungri
DBSK are a very idol group that everyone adores.
- Seungri
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Image of Claude Debussy
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
- Claude Debussy
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Image of Cassandra Peterson
One of my favorite people I got to meet was my childhood idol, Vincent Price. I got to not only meet him, but become friendly with him before he passed away.
- Cassandra Peterson
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Image of Mark Dever
I do want to pray for the Lord to glorify himself and, yes, I also will pray for an outpouring of his Spirit, but I also will rejoice in what he is doing now, and I will try to be a faithful steward of the gospel by preaching it "in season and out of season", as Paul reminds us. So I want to be careful not to make an idol out of revival, or to rely upon it to the point where I don't plan for evangelism.
- Mark Dever
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Image of Craig Ferguson
This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.
- Craig Ferguson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Dan Fogelberg
How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?
- Dan Fogelberg
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Image of Gustave Flaubert
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.
- Gustave Flaubert
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