Sentence examples for a idol of from inspiring English sources

In Life of Moses, Gregory writes: "...every concept that comes from some comprehensible image, by an approximate understanding and by guessing at the Divine nature, constitutes a idol of God and does not proclaim God".

At the weekend, a Catholic church in Haryana was vandalised and the cross replaced with an idol of a Hindu god.

At first he felt a repugnance toward Hegel's doctrines; when Marx fell sick it was partially, as he wrote his father, "from intense vexation at having to make an idol of a view I detested".

The activists were sailing towards the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyutai in Taiwan and Diaoyu in China, to install an idol of a goddess.

A temple with an idol of Sonia Gandhi, the head of India's ruling Congress party, is being built by a supporter in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Buy a photograph or an idol of Lord Ganesha from any nearby religious store.

"At the minute I'm level with a left-back (Sansom) who was an idol of mine and a great player.

On a night when nearly every spectator at the United States Open wanted to see Roddick deliver a rout, the stadium was a temple of worship for an idol of American tennis.

Once an idol of baby boomers, a model of coonskin fortitude, he now became for them a source of middle-aged balm and solace, making wine they could sip in the evening as the shadows lengthened.

Stewart's words carried an echo of T. E. Lawrence, an idol of his, who once wrote of himself, "There was a craving to be famous; and a horror of being known to like being known".

It is an object to be worshipped, an idol of style.