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Idol Worship Quotes

You become like what you worship

You become like what you worship

N. T. Wright
Idols, Idol Worship, Worship
N. T. Wright (2011). “Revelation for Everyone”, p.92, Presbyterian Publishing Corp

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

Swami Vivekananda
Gone, World, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.160, Advaita Ashrama

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Swami Vivekananda
Idol Worship, Opinion, Idolatry
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Vance Havner
Idols, Idol Worship, Spirit

The idol is the expression of religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Expression, Idols, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"

Swami Vivekananda
Brother, Idol Worship, Helping
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Idol Worship, Form
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

Swami Vivekananda
Brain, May, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1461, Manonmani Publishers

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Doe, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Men, Idols, Idol Worship
"Tales of the Hasidim : The Later Masters" by Martin Buber, translated by Olga Marx, 1948.

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, May, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.33, editionNEXT.com

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