Ears Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

— Mark Driscoll

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

— Timothy Keller

We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to…

— Timothy Keller

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

— Nancy Pearcey

Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what…

— Franz Kafka

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he…

— Simone de Beauvoir

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

— Nancy Pearcey

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

— Samuel Rutherford

“Evil, let it never be mistaken, is real. But it is inferior. It is parasitic. It is incomplete. The moment we take counsel from…

— Tod Worner

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

— Joseph Sobran

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

— Nancy Pearcey