Boast Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

— Timothy Keller

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

— Mark Driscoll

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

— Nancy Pearcey

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

— Timothy Keller

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often…

— J. C. Ryle

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

I think we all grow up with idols and things like that.

— Hope Sandoval

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

— Abigail Disney

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

— Kevin Corrigan

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

— Timothy Keller