Consequence Quote by Nancy Pearcey Download Open image “To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.” — Nancy Pearcey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consequence Idols Phrases
Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things — Timothy Keller 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
When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate. — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise. — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Redemption is not just about being saved *from* the consequences of sin, it is also about being saved *to* something- to resume the task… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Many of us don't even know what it means to have a Christian perspective on our work. Oh, we know that being a Christian… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and technology; rather, they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters of religion… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons," author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard people work to suppress their knowledge of God, creation itself keeps challenging them. “Human life is a continual wrestling match… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying. — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
