Book Quote by Swami Vivekananda

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.

— William Bernard Ullathorne

The idol is the expression of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man

— Swami Vivekananda

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

— Jean Rostand

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

— John Shelby Spong

“The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be…

— A.W. Tozer

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

— Hosea Ballou

“God does not live in idols and temples either…of course, idols and temples are some of the ways that remind us of God’s existence.…

— Girdhar Joshi

Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple…

— Matthew Simpson

“But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who…

— Boethius