IDOLATRY

Related Subjects: Gods and Goddesses, Worship

1. Four species of idols beset the human mind: idols of the tribe; idols of the den; idols of the market; and idols of the theatre.—BACON, Novum Organum
   

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.—Bible, Exodus 20:4
   

3. Her overpowering presence made you feel
   It would not be idolatry to kneel.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. Ah, spare your idol! think him human still.
   Charms he may have, but he has frailties too!
   Dote not too much, nor spoil what ye admire.—COWPER, The Task
   

5. The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone;
   'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own.—KIPLING, The 'Eathen
   

6. Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.—THEODORE PARKER, Critical and Miscellaneous Writings
   

7. He begs a blessing of a wooden god.—Proverb
   

8. The god of my idolatry.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
   

9. An idiot holds his bauble for a god.—SHAKESPEARE, Titus Andronicus
   

10. 'Tis mad idolatry
    To make the service greater than the god.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

11. Was this the idol that you worship so?—SHAKESPEARE, Two Gentlemen of Verona
    

12. He who slays a king and he who dies for him are alike idolaters.—BERNARD SHAW,Maxims for Revolutionists