Eugene O'Neill Quotes

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

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.

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

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

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

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

Banish afar the foul worship of idols. On their alters let the blood of animals smoke no more, nor the soothsayer look for omens in warm entrails, nor the meaningless augur attend to the song of birds. Let all the images of the gods be smashed to the ground.

Allah is an embalmed toy in the museums of history

Ireland has remained a Catholic nation, and as such sets the eternal destiny of man high above the isms and idols of the day. Her people would accept no system that decried of imperiled that destiny. So long as that was their attitude none of the forms of state-worship now prevalent [elsewhere in the world] could flourish in their land.

No human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

If we think every word in every holy book is true, then we have created an idol.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

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!

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-