Idols Quote by Alexandra David-Neel Download Open image “Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.” — Alexandra David-Neel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idols Oneself
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect.” — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“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… — Joe Thorn Copy Share Image
Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization. — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies. — James Howell Copy Share Image
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
That's one of my idols, I really look up to Pacquiao. This guy is everything I would want to be. — Ryan Garcia Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every… — Sergio Aguero Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a… — Richard Keyes Copy Share Image
I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary. — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do. — Richard Patrick Copy Share Image
A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good. — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image