Aldous Huxley Quotes

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

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

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

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

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

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

Even our pets can become idols.

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

We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

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

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

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

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

Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!

I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.

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

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

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

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.