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Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progres...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they...

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The dearest idol I have known,Whate'er that idol be,Help me to tear it from thy throne,And worship o...

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The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You...

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Zora Neale HurstonI Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama....

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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than wi...

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Dallas WillardHearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there...

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David Foster WallaceThis Is Water: Some Thoughts