False Gods Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

• Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. — Robert W. Service
• If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver-and you can… — Hartman Rector, Jr.
• False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks. — Alexander Herzen
• The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet
• 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
• Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into… — D. A. Carson
• Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or… — Brennan Manning
• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier
• No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all… — C.S. Lewis
• Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods. — David Harsanyi

Who Wrote These False Gods Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 False Gods Quotes as follows:

• 1 False Gods Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 False Gods Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 False Gods Quote by Robert W. Service
• 1 False Gods Quote by Hartman Rector, Jr.
• 1 False Gods Quote by Alexander Herzen
• 1 False Gods Quote by Jules Michelet
• 1 False Gods Quote by Spencer W. Kimball
• 1 False Gods Quote by D. A. Carson
• 1 False Gods Quote by Brennan Manning
• 1 False Gods Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1 False Gods Quote by Agnes Repplier
• 1 False Gods Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 False Gods Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 False Gods Quote by David Harsanyi