Unhealthy Devotion Quotes

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

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

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

A fan had written my name on his chest with blood once. That was not just crazy but scary, too!

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.