Quotes about Idol
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
— Frank Herbert
But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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.
— Timothy Keller
Whatever is at the center of your life is your god
— Rick Warren
The idol of yourself is the mother of all idols.
— Deepak Chopra
Yahweh—a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to it. Such a god in the Orient would be regarded as a deluding idol.
— Joseph Campbell
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
— Washington Allston
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
— John Calvin
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
— Washington Allston
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.
— JC Ryle
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
— AW Tozer