Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers. . . we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.
My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.
I don't watch 'American Idol. ' I don't watch any of that stuff.
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?
Work until your idols become your rivals
Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.
No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.
My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.
The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.
Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.
At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.