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A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.
Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.
When I was growing up, Keane and Sheringham were my idols, and they wore 10. So it was always my dream to wear it.
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.
I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off a cliff now.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.
My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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.
Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!
When people outside Korea think of 'K-pop,' most of them expect 'idols' with several members in a group, dancing in sync.
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.
My style idols are people like Kate Hudson, the Olsen twins and of course Sienna Miller and Kate Moss- even Bridget Bardot.
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.
I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols
The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.
We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.
I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!
I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.
Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international lawyer.
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.
We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.