Idols Quote by Theodore Parker

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something…

— H. P. Lovecraft

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

— Aulus Gellius

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

— Richard Burton

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious…

— Immanuel Kant

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“All religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

— Adrian Rogers

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

— Joseph Hall

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

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

— Michel de Montaigne

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

— John Banville