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Letter "I" » idols
«We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.»
Author: B. B. King
| Keywords:
idols
«The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
family life, Great Society, idols, independence, in the midst, midst, selfish
«Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: / And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.»
«The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.»
«Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: / But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.»
«Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
admiration, glorious, idols, of their own, paradise, scorn, slaves, The Idols, vaunt, vaunted, vaunts
«The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
blood, bowing, bows, bow out, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, flesh, fleshed, Flesh and Blood, idols, savage, savaged, stone, take a bow, wood
«We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
boast, emancipation, idolatry, idols, superstitions, transfer, transferred, transferring, transfers
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