Quotes on Idols

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.