Idolized Quotes

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.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point.

.. We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

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.

My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did.

And I feel like I’m on my way.

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys.

Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to do as they please and make decisions off of pleasures, feelings or emotion? It is because they have not been taken captive by the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone does not rule in that life, there are rivals on the throne.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

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

Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality.

People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

You become like what you worship

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

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

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion.

The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.

If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

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.

The one who doesn't fall doesn't stand up.

It happens that I was made kind of an idol. Everybody loses. That happens. I'm a normal human being, as are all of us. If it is God's will, the next fight I'll win... No pressure at all. There is some relief because tomorrow I will go back home.

In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability.

He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap.

I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, ‘You don’t know how weird this is for me.’ I told her, ‘You don’t know how weird it is for me!’