Quotes about Idolization
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
— George Bernard Shaw
Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.
— Anonymous
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
— Paul Washer
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
— Albert Einstein
Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...
— George Eliot
Simply stated, everyone who idolizes also demonizes and in so doing is a hypocrite contributing to the tearing of a social fabric of love, peace, and kindness they purport to be serving.
— Mark Driscoll
You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.
— John Piper
Bonhoeffer contended in his address that if a leader's main objective was to idolize himself, that leader was not exhibiting true, godly leadership, but was in fact a "mis-leader" of the people he pretended to lead.
— Eric Metaxas
A man looks at a "sex goddess" and lusts. A man looks at a feminine woman and worships.
— Larry Crabb
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice....we convince ourselves that they are or were something essentially different than the rest of us.
— Ravi Zacharias
The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
— Michael Douglas