Approval Quote by John Ortberg

“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the…

— Erich Fromm

One family, one nation, indivisible. That mentality is essential for our salvation.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

— Os Guinness

If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.

— Ross Douthat

Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout…

— David Richo

“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult. ERICH FROMM”

— A.C. Grayling

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

— Swami Vivekananda

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A country without idols is nothing.

— Roberto Clemente

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

— Francis Chan

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of…

— Ambrose

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country…

— Christiane Amanpour