Idols Quote by Gregory of Nyssa Download Open image “Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.” — Gregory of Nyssa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idols Wonder
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without commitment. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It is impossible that one who has turned to the world and feels its anxieties, and engages his heart in the wish to please… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
“and the creation, in the world and above the world, that once was at variance with itself, is knit together in friendship: and we… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are. — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Who gives you the day will give you also the things necessary for the day. — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Today the darkness begins to grow shorter and the light to lengthen, as the hours of night become fewer.... Realize that the true light… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and… — Gregory of Nyssa 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
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
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
First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens'… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
