{"quotes":[{"text":"The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.","author":"Zora Neale Hurston","tags":["divinity","idols","worship"],"id":6211,"author_id":"Zora+Neale+Hurston"},{"text":"Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["build","create","false-gods","god","gods","idols","selfish"],"id":30009,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["confuse","confused","denial","deny","disorient","disoriented","gods","idol","idols","lost","misguided","misled","priorities","priority","worship","worshipping"],"id":45478,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles.","author":"Kristian Goldmund Aumann","tags":["idols","twilight","worship"],"id":53038,"author_id":"Kristian+Goldmund+Aumann"},{"text":"It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant elevation of the standard of veracity, the end of the evolution of theology will be like its beginning—it will cease to have any relation to ethics. I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated instinct to personify its intellectual conceptions. The science of the present day is as full of this particular form of intellectual shadow-worship as is the nescience of ignorant ages. The difference is that the philosopher who is worthy of the name knows that his personified hypotheses, such as law, and force, and ether, and the like, are merely useful symbols, while the ignorant and the careless take them for adequate expressions of reality. So, it may be, that the majority of mankind may find the practice of morality made easier by the use of theological symbols. And unless these are converted from symbols into idols, I do not see that science has anything to say to the practice, except to give an occasional warning of its dangers. But, when such symbols are dealt with as real existences, I think the highest duty which is laid upon men of science is to show that these dogmatic idols have no greater value than the fabrications of men's hands, the stocks and the stones, which they have replaced.","author":"Thomas Henry Huxley","tags":["careless","conviction","culture","dogmatic","ethics","evolution","expression","fabrication","force","history","idols","ignorant","morality","personification","philology","philosophy","reality","science","symbols","theology","value","veracity"],"id":55794,"author_id":"Thomas+Henry+Huxley"},{"text":"So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`I'm (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols of the heart.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["allah","blessing","hardship","idols","test"],"id":60081,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.","author":"Joel Osteen","tags":["dreams","god","holy-spirit","idols","jesus","joel-osteen","sacrifice","the-bible","wanting"],"id":61025,"author_id":"Joel+Osteen"},{"text":"Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bible","bow","christian","christianity","deceit","deception","fabrication","false-gods","falsehood","fiction","fictional","god","idol","idolatry","idols","illusion","king","sin","sinful-false","throne","worship","worshiping"],"id":66396,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"All speculative theology, which rests on philosophical reasoning rather than biblical revelation, is at fault here. Paul tells us where this sort of theology ends: “The world by wisdom knew not God” (1 Cor 1:21 KJV). To follow the imagination of one’s heart in the realm of theology is the way to remain ignorant of God, and to become an idol-worshipper, the idol in this case being a false mental image of God, made by one’s own speculation and imagination.","author":"J.I. Packer","tags":["christianity","god","idols","theology"],"id":111097,"author_id":"J.I.+Packer"},{"text":"It’s easier to love the idol than to love Him. The path is narrow, and few find it because they are afraid. We have made God into an idol to fear because we made ourselves to be worthless. The object of God's love has been manipulated to be contemptible.","author":"RJ Blizzard","tags":["god-s-love-and-grace","god-s-love","idolatry-of-god","idols","narrow-path","religion"],"id":113835,"author_id":"RJ+Blizzard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}