“If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.”

“As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money, of success, comfort, materialism, pleasure, sexual immorality, self-worship, self-obsession. The sacred increasingly disappeared, and the profane took its place.”

“To love one who loves you,To admire one who admires you,In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,Is exceeding the limit of human joy;It is stealing fire from heaven.”

“To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.”

“We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.”

“The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.”