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The idol is the expression of religion. -- Swami Vivekananda
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again. -- John Lennon
My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him. -- Emraan Hashmi
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. -- Swami Vivekananda
The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet. -- Swami Vivekananda
Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. -- Vance Havner
Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. -- Swami Vivekananda
When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship! -- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. -- Swami Vivekananda
Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. -- Swami Vivekananda
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible. -- Swami Vivekananda
The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols." -- Swami Vivekananda
Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act. -- Kevin Corrigan
This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do. -- Swami Vivekananda
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. -- N. T. Wright
Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?" -- Swami Vivekananda
Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin! -- Swami Vivekananda
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika. -- Swami Vivekananda
As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice guy in private. I mean I like the guy; he's a terrific writer. I've published two of his books. Baraka is one of these fundamentalists who is prone to idol worship. -- Ishmael Reed
Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind. -- Bhagat Singh
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. -- Kevin Corrigan
One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. -- Swami Vivekananda
Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives. -- Pope Francis
I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think I've gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act. -- Kevin Corrigan
We shall no more see our kind friends around us, or enjoy the conveniences of civilized life, or go to the house of God with those that keep holy day; but swarthy countenances will everywhere meet our eye, the jargon of an unknown tongue will assail our ears, and we shall witness the assembling of the heathen to celebrate the worship of idol gods. -- Adoniram Judson
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money. -- Andrew Carnegie
One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate. -- Abigail Disney
Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship -- AainaA-Ridtz
Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it? -- Joseph Sobran
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol... -- Alan Watts
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit. -- Walter Lippmann
The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish. -- James Luther Adams
We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship. -- Blaise Pascal

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