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Idolatry Quotes

Idolatry Definition

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Northrop Frye

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Lionel Blue

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Ann Oakley

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Meryl Streep

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John Selden

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

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Trevor Nunn

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf

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.
John Calvin

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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