A Quote by John Ortberg

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

John Ortberg

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Approval Bible Call Country Dependency Family Having Idol Idolatry Obsession Someone Word

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John Ortberg
American - Priest
Born: May 5, 1957

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

Alan Watts

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It was a pleasure to work with everybody at 'American Idol' and to be able to be part of the 'Idol' family.

Katie Stevens

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

Delphine de Girardin

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

Susan Sontag

I just want to show that you don't have to be changing yourself 100 percent to be someone that you're not. You don't have to change yourself to be someone like your idol. You can be someone's idol just by being you. But also, it takes a lot of work and time to be that sort of person.

Jamie Park

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Susan Sontag

The other night, President Bush's press conference was pre-empted by 'American Idol.' You know the difference between President Bush and 'American Idol?' See, on 'American Idol,' the one with the most votes wins.

Jay Leno

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Sharron Angle

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

Walter Lippmann

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Tullian Tchividjian

When 'Indian Idol 2' started, I believed we would have a female idol this time. Unfortunately, that didn't happen and it is really funny.

Anu Malik

I personally have a silver idol of Lord Ganesh that I reuse every year. Don't measure your devotion with the size of the idol.

Amrita Rao

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.