Quotes by Idols Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. Henry David Thoreau stars idols men A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments. Howard Thurman discipline idols commitment The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wall nature idols Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine. Henry Ward Beecher pride idols heart The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. Hugh Hefner impact growing-up idols Men can make an idol of the Bible. Henry Ward Beecher idols men My heart can take on any form: Ibn Arabi tables idols heart My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith. Ibn Arabi idols heart love-is All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept. Honore de Balzac noble idols want I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That’s what makes me interested in them, that they didn’t present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. Imelda Staunton actresses idols jobs What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen! Isaac Mizrahi what-if idols would-be How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. Isaac Watts scripture idols book In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders. Isaac Newton rocks kings idols Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all. J. C. Ryle snakes idols hands To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol. Ivan Illich hell idols men There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down. J. Milton Hayes broken idols yellow Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own. J. C. Ryle manufacturing mercy idols A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol. Jack Dempsey champion idols pay I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him. Jack Klugman garfield saws idols Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished. J. C. Ryle lasts idols firsts «678910111213141516»