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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no. — Rafael Nadal

Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God's love for them. 9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. — Anonymous

12For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, — Anonymous

Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger. — Jimi Hendrix

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. — Walter Lippmann

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands. — Gustave Flaubert

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen. — Dirk Nowitzki

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Until you are convinced of God's incredible love for you, you will continue looking for replacement love everywhere but in the heart of Christ. — Jennifer Dukes Lee

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life. — Diana DeGarmo

The more you make Jesus the treasure of your heart, the less room there will be in your life for idols. — Ken Sande

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

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did. — Tom DeLonge

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch. — Andres Iniesta

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news. — Tom Brokaw

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) — Gustave Flaubert

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me. — Breckin Meyer

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

Alas for a love whose fire is extinct,
A love that was born in the Holy Place and died in the house of idols! — Muhammad Iqbal

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar. — St. Jerome

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. — Dita Von Teese

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols. — Elizabeth A. Johnson

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for? — Dan Fogelberg

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

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands. — Gustave Flaubert

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all. — R.C. Sproul

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything. — Gregory Of Nyssa

When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously. — Rob Lowe

But idols fall, and sometimes they land right on you and leave you flattened. — Sarah Dessen

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols. — Sathya Sai Baba

When we turn life's little pleasures into remedies for life's troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside. — Lydia Brownback

Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols. — Edward T. Welch

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now. — Jacob Latimore

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. — Morris Raphael Cohen

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol. — Adrian Rogers

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential — Gordon Brown

The idol is the expression of religion. — Swami Vivekananda

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. — Ayrton Senna

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. — Shane Claiborne

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do. — Richard Patrick

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. — Francis Bacon

Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.' — Percy Sledge

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? — William Shakespeare

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship! — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

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

The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized 1 or 2 strengths. — Timothy Ferriss

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. — Geraldine Jewsbury

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging. — Joachim Peiper

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. — Martial

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left. — Agatha Christie

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that. — Jason Terry

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it? — Joseph Sobran

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith

Lonely you linger in a league above poetry. — Mie Hansson

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality. — Auliq Ice

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives. — Pope Francis

It's dangerous to meet your idols. You'll always be disappointed. — Karina Halle

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. — Isaac Watts

I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols. If I can take a little of each player's game and make it my own, I would be very happy, — Neymar

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. — Rumi

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives. — Timothy Keller

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God. — Pope Francis

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington

Guard against idols
yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself. — Alexandra David-Neel

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time. — Rick Springfield

The Human heart is an idol factory. — John Calvin

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing. — Mika.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. — Nancy Pearcey

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. — Vance Havner

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream. — Elizabeth Taylor

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. — Coco Austin

We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms. — M.F. Moonzajer

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish. — James Luther Adams

A god is anything that lives outside of God. — Anthony Liccione

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. — Aldous Huxley

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind. — Philip Sidney

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. — Jean Paul

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. — Meg White

Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God. — Trevor D. Richardson

There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary. — Matthew Henry

We do not put away our idols so that God will then accept us, but we put away our idols because God has accepted us in Christ — Gloria Furman

If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race. — Kimberley Locke

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it. — J.D. Greear

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. — Mark Twain

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. — Criss Jami

You're still my idol. — Manny Pacquiao

I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off a cliff now. — Tim Schafer

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols. — Billy Graham

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol. — Evgeni Plushenko

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood. — Swami Vivekananda

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke

We are on the whole an idolatrous people. — Spencer W. Kimball

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe! — Anton Szandor LaVey

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist — Choi Soo-young

A country without idols is nothing. — Roberto Clemente

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me. — Shirley Manson