When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts...

What you need to drive out an old passion, is a new passion, a greater passion. What you need is an over-mastering positive passion. […] Just as Rachel was Jacob’s over-mastering passion, the passion of...

While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a...

Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won’t usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures.

ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For...

That’s fantastic, … Tying your idols — isn’t that great? It’s every boy’s dream and I made it come true today in a memorable final.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

Idols of the injury,dug in behind the least understoodmotor plan information.The vile abomination temporal lobes andThe four loathsome memory walls andThe four reasoning, arithmetic beastsare found for all behind pain and planes.Portrayed as a house,Go...

It’s fantastic. For me it’s very special to tie your idols. I made it come true today in a memorable final. Hopefully I can beat those records.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God. One of the primary laws of human life is that you...

Man, he’s just one of our idols. I’ve been listening to Scofield since I was a teenager. One thing I always respected about him was you never knew what his next album would be like....

Tying your idols, I think it’s every little boy’s dream,

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom – but from what, from whom? Little...

Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally...

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only from our humility can learn to be redeemers, can learn to work together in...

I’ve been very lucky. I’ve written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.

Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God.

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I’m not just the end of childhood. I’m the end of humanity. And if you come from...

I don’t have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.

We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.

Hereos. Idols. They’re never who you think they are. Shorter. Nastier. Smellier. And when you finally meet them, there’s something that makes you want to choke the shit out of them.

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you’re hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about...

We need to not let food master us and take the throne of our lives. We need to make food submit to us, rather than us submitting to food. No one can serve two masters....

The dearest idol I have known,Whate’er that idol be,Help me to tear it from thy throne,And worship only thee.So shall my walk be close with God,Calm and serene my frame;So purer light shall mark the...

Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there at all times. It is good to have hopes and dreams for the...

Keep yourselves from idols.” The warning isn’t given to them because it wasn’t a real danger or because there was an off chance someone might fall into idolatry. It was given because this is our...

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you’ve sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, “You Chinese dog,” before getting his ass kicked, it...

A god is anything that lives outside of God.

It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant...

Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.

Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles.