Adore Quote by William Wordsworth

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators,…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

— Paul Washer

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

— William Stringfellow

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

Obviously, my aspirations are to be considered one of the best. Like, anyone rapping should have that mindset.

— Lil Dicky

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

— Swami Vivekananda

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create…

— Marva Dawn

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

— John Ortberg

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

— Pliny the Elder