“ 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- Copy
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“ Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of his idolatry. ”
- William B. Ullathorne- Copy
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“ We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the God. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? ”
- Mary Baker Eddy- Copy
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“ Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. ”
- John Selden- Copy
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“ Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. ”
- Pope John Paul II- Copy
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“ The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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