John Bach Quotes

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

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.

You should never meet your heroes.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

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

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

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

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

I've had people following me home or standing outside my house. It's strange. I just don't think people were meant to be worshipped or idolised.

In matters of religion it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.

I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

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.

Kings are the peoples Idols, creatures of their own making

I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.

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

For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

I don't really get star struck.

People want to adulate people.

I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.

We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.