Sentences with phrase «idols out»

As a Christian I find it interesting that so often I make idols out of perfectly good things (God's blessings even) because I exalt them over the BEST thing — Christ.

It is so easy to make idols out of ideas.

Well from my understanding that verse is simple talking about making Idols out of trees.

They are: rationalization, which tends toward sterile intellectualization and robs life of its character and vitality; estheticism, which cuts off true communication by maintaining an esthetic distance in order to dominate, rather than to support, others; capitalism, which tends to deper - sonalize people by providing for their hedonistic needs in order to support production and consumption regardless of its human utility; and nationalism, which tends to make national things sacred and in doing so to create idols out of them.31.

You don't have to make an idol out of every successful person you know in order to learn from them.

If some make an idol out of entertainment, others make an idol out of abstention.

But for me (and maybe for you, too) the sin comes when I make an idol out of that consistency.

A person can, no doubt, make an idol out of an ideology, but the mere possibility does not establish, as Koyzis seems to think, that Christian liberals, Christian conservatives, etc., have committed themselves to an essentially idolatrous project.

when you make an idol out of error, your soul becomes desolated, and then the devil fills that gap.

One can make an idol out of every thing.

Ken, when you take up error, and make an idol out of it.

You can make an idol out of anything.

Perhaps in allowing such diversity in the writing and compiling of Scripture, God sought to protect us from making an idol out of any one interpretation of it.

We are even cautioned against the idea of making an idol out of our familial relationships.

They were carving and making a wooden idol out of a tree, opposed to stone or another material.

It is only that we Germans should finally get cured of our eternal disease: Making an idol out of obedience.

I think people have made an idol out of the very word «science.»

Will you be still around, or leaving with your clown of the idol out of the club.

Western men looking for Russian women make often an idol out of dating and relationships.

The head of 765 Production talent agency entrusts you with just one idol out of 13 with the rest remaining behind lock and key until you prove your managerial worth.

Not exact matches

Getting stronger There is a probably no more cited quote of Nietzsche (often misquoted, actually) as this, also from Twilight of the Idols: «Out of life's school of war: What does not kill me makes me stronger.»

* Acts 8:9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which befortime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: * St. John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: * Isaiah 10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

I always amazes me when non-Catholic Christians bring out the old, «praying to idols» arguments.

So, Iâ $ ™ m thinking that idols arenâ $ ™ t so much about worshiping and serving a different god, but about over-emphasizing just one aspect of the one true God, creating a whole new god out of that one feature.

Stay praying to your false idols & stay out of politics.

Paul never dreamed of gradually saving the Roman Empire; he gloried in saving souls out of the Empire, persuading them to turn «from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven.»

Get your family out and leave all your idols behind.

[6:108] Do not curse the idols they set up beside GOD, lest they blaspheme and curse GOD, out of ignorance.

The sermon continued in out - of - church discussions, as members struggled to figure out their own idols.

When sinners try to construct out of these fragments a natural theology that points to the true God, they succeed only in assembling a picture of what Calvin called an idol, a deity who is not really God but only a cheap substitute for the real thing.

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

In this way it was that they were taught that most cruel of sacrifices, a custom they always practiced after that, which consisted of cutting open a man s chest in order to tear out his heart and offer it to their idols.11

Thus did the Mexicans set out, just as the children of Israel had done, in search of the promised land, taking with them their idol enclosed in an ark, made of rushes, just as the others had taken with them their Ark of the Covenant.

And as others show us the working out of their problems to which Jesus was the answer, we will see our own cultural and theological idols more clearly.

It turns out, then, that Wilmot's granddaughter becomes a movie star who personifies this modern idol - making institution.

You find out whatever the culture or person is looking to for meaning, and you show that while that is a good thing, you've turned it into an idol and only in Jesus Christ will that aspiration ever be fulfilled.

1Ki 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

It is because of this that he emphasises that we should «shun idols, guard our eyes from «vanities / nothings» (pp. 44, 48) so that we can «adore the God of Jesus Christ who out of love made himself bread broken, the most effective and radical remedy against the idolatry of the past and of the present.»

I think you are confusing this idol with the Creator YHWH, in Isaiah 43:13, He says that No Man Can Be Delivered From Out of His Hands, not jc.

The same Old Testament that provides the pronouns also states, «Since you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure — the likeness of male or female» (Deuteronomy 4:15 - 16).

First, The bible states any one attempting to worship God to do so with out idols («from what is in the heaven or on the earth»)!

Is it any more than a warning against all idols, all divinities fashioned out of human need, human ideologies?

Moses just talked God out of killing the Israelites for making an idol only to come off the mountain, round up the Levites and kill 3,000.

This was Moses speaking to Israel, after they had made it out of Egypt, and were caught partying with / worshipping golden idols.

This may be the ideal for some, but one can not count on it working out that way, primarily because of the presence of various political ideologies which, as I've described in Political Visions and Illusions, tend to take on an idolatrous character and, like all idols, are unwilling to share power with others.

Thus, we can say that martyrdom arose out of refusal to worship the idols.

We need to realize that belting out what you believe to be the best tunes while bathing in your shower does not make you the next pop idol.

The Rangers had Yu Darvish, who happens to be Ohtani's childhood idol, and that worked out well.

Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez, 28, has not ruled out staying at the club beyond the end of his contract in 2014, but admits he would love to return home to play for his boyhood idols Boca Juniors.

The former matinee idol, who won a gold medal in front of his countrymen at the Rome Olympics in 1960 and later held the world middleweight title for most of three years, had been beating himself up, guilt - ridden that for all his success in and out of the ring, he hadn't done enough to help others.