Joseph Addison Quotes

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

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

If you want to make idols accessible - which I think Shakespeare should be - then you have to bring a human touch, make it self-effacing and warm.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

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

Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.

You become like what you worship

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

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.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

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