Idols Quotes · Page 12

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

— R. C. Sproul

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

— Mark Driscoll

Drake is one of the best and one of my idols also. Drake's the truth.

— Rich Homie Quan

My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.

— Thalia

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

— Timothy Keller

I've been able to work with incredible people, including some of my idols.

— Everlast

I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.

— Ella Henderson

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

— Abigail Disney

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my…

— Coco Austin

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy…

— William Shakespeare

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in…

— Nigel Lythgoe

First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,…

— John Milton

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the…

— Boy George

My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew…

— Marco Reus

When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting…

— James Frey

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical…

— Thorstein Veblen

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as…

— Jess Walter

Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical…

— Daniel L. Akin

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol'…

— Nigel Lythgoe

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.…

— George Bernard Shaw

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing…

— Mary Russell Mitford

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

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

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Yeah, long live the idols, may they nevAr be your rivals. Pac was like Jesus, Nas wrote the Bible.

— J Cole

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

— Rumi

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

— Muddy Waters

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

— Diane Sawyer

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

— Bobby Sherman

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

— Elyse Fitzpatrick

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

— Voltaire

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.

— Jud Wilhite

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

— Anonymous

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

— Vance Havner

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

— Molly Ivins

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

— Walter Lippmann

A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

— La'Porsha Renae