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idolatries
«And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said»
Author: Christopher Columbus
(Adventurer, Navigator)
| Keywords:
Catholic, Christian faith, Christopher, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, devoted, heresies, highness, Highnesses, idolatries, princes, propagation, resolved, sect, thereof
«Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Belief,
Mankind,
Men,
Mind,
Superstition
| Keywords:
forsake, idol, idolatries, idolatry
«Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| Keywords:
absolutes, idolatries, idolatry, purifies, purify, superstition
«For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: / Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: / Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.»
«Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: / For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: / In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
concupiscence, covetousness, fornication, idolatries, idolatry, inordinate, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, uncleanness, wrath
«Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare /never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
concern, cult, cults, Cult of the, excludes, form of worship, for one, hardly, idolatries, idolatrous, idolatry, incest, insanity, nationalism, One Country, patriotism, puts, The Cult, The Nation, welfare, worship
«I have not loved the world, nor the world me; / I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed / To its idolatries a patient knee, / Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud / In worship of an echo.»
«Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
admirable, attribution, claims, hideous, idolatries, idolatry, monster, omnipotence, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, rationalism, recognition, sanctifies, sanctifying, stock, suppression, suppressions, The Admirable
«'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
idolatries, idolatry, The God, The Service