A Quote by John Ortberg

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
American - Priest
Born: May 5, 1957

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

George Bernard Shaw

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

G-Dragon

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

John Calvin

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

Walter Lippmann

Every year, I feel really sad when I see Ganesha idols lying here and there after the visarjan. So it is my request to everyone to bring home eco-friendly idols.

Gautam Rode

The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.

Daryl Gregory

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

Gregory of Nyssa

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

When I was growing up, Keane and Sheringham were my idols, and they wore 10. So it was always my dream to wear it.

Harry Kane

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

Alexander Schmemann

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Alexandra David-Neel

When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.