N. T. Wright Quotes

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

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

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.

Among the most important such false gods in our time is the United Nations, which has become a new religion that is worshipped to the exclusion of God… It issues documents and statements that openly contradict Islamic belief, such as International Declaration for Human Rights, considering all religions are equal, and considering that the destruction of the statues constitutes a crime.

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.

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

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.

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

Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but if one kneels before husband or wife, it is quite permissible!

You become like what you worship

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

We always become like the one we worship!

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

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

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

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

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

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of 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

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.