Idol Worship Quotes

17 Idol Worship quotes by 3 unique authors

• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
• Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda
• As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are… — Swami Vivekananda
• Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay,… — Swami Vivekananda
• One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. — Swami Vivekananda
• Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. — Swami Vivekananda
• The idol is the expression of religion. — Swami Vivekananda
• The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. — Swami Vivekananda
• The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it… — Swami Vivekananda
• The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet. — Swami Vivekananda
• This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that… — Swami Vivekananda
• Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form… — Swami Vivekananda
• Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible. — Swami Vivekananda
• We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect… — Swami Vivekananda
• We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is… — Swami Vivekananda
• Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. — Swami Vivekananda
• These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I… — John Lennon

Who Wrote These Idol Worship Quotes

3 authors contributed a total of 17 Idol Worship Quotes as follows:

• 15 Idol Worship Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
• 1 Idol Worship Quote by John Lennon
• 1 Idol Worship Quote by Erich Fromm