Darkness Quote by Dayananda Saraswati

Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false…

— Horace Walpole

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But…

— Swami Vivekananda

The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can…

— Alan Wilson Watts

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

— Ron Carlson

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God…

— Swami Vivekananda

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

— Robert Dale Owen

“For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no…

— Kai Meyer

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.…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Idol worship” is so deeply ingrained in the human brain synapses that it would be almost impossible to be bereft of it. And in…

— Giannis Delimitsos