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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Idolatry |
| The idol is the measure of the worshipper. Lowell. | 1 | ||||
Shakespeare. | 2 | ||||
| It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. Martial. | 3 | ||||
| Man may content himself with the applause of the world, and the homage paid to his intellect; but woman’s heart has holier idols. George Eliot. | 4 | ||||
| Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. Stillingfleet. | 5 | ||||
| Make no man your idol; for the best man must have faults, and his faults will usually become yours in addition to your own. This is as true in art as an morals. Washington Allston. | 6 | ||||
| Idolatry is certainly the first-born of folly, the great and leading paradox; nay, the very abridgment and sum total of all absurdities. South. | 7 | ||||
| This idol gold can boast of two peculiarities: it is worshipped in all climates without a single temple, and by all classes without a single hypocrite. Colton. | 8 | ||||
| God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it—a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place. Ruskin. | 9 | ||||
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