#idol

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it. ↗

— Josh Hartnett

#being #deal #happens #happy #i

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me. ↗

— Breckin Meyer

#i #idols #john #keaton #maybe

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #idolatry #individuality #legacy #love

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music. ↗

— Anwar Robinson

#american idol #change #how #idol #knows

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized. ↗

— Bobby Sherman

#best #everybody #i #idolized #me

The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo-s-boys #louisa-may-alcott #age

Because my heat was too full of appreciation for what my friends-- my real friends-- had done for me. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#meg-cabot #teen-idol #thatsaquote #teen

‎A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a sculpture in some distant country. The idea is highly sophisticated, drawing together the complexities of motivation in individual psychology, the social environment, and also the unseen world. Idols are not just on pagan altars, but in well-educated human hearts and minds ↗

— Richard Keyes

#old-testament #richard-keyes #education

By giving us control, our new technologies tend to enhance existing idols in our lives. Instead of becoming more like Christ through the forming and shaping influence of the church community, we form, and shape, and personalize our community to make it more like us. We take control of things that are not ours to control. Could it be that our desire for control is short-circuiting the process of change and transformation God wants us to experience through the mess of real world, flesh and blood, face-to-face relationships? ↗

— Tim Challies

#discipleship #idolatry #change

Idolatry' is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something other than the one true God. It is the tragically pathetic attempt to squeeze life out of lifeless forms that cannot help us meet our real needs. ↗

— Scott J. Hafemann

#faith