Fallen Quote by Alexander Schmemann

Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple…

— Matthew Simpson

The idol is the expression of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

— Joseph Hall

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man

— Swami Vivekananda

True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward…

— John Shelby Spong

“Idols aren't just stone statues. No, idols are the thoughts, desires, longings, and expectations that we worship in the place of the true God.…

— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

— Anonymous

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

— Sigmund Freud

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors...

— Spencer W. Kimball

The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us,…

— Evelyn Underhill

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

— Alfred North Whitehead