Idolatry Quotes
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She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.
— Jeremy Camp
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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
— Martin Luther
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
— Saint Augustine
Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
— Will Herberg
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
— N. T. Wright
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But with art came idolatry; with construction came ostentation and oppression; with commerce came luxury.
— James Oscar Boyd
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
— Emilio Estevez
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.
— Joseph Hall
He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.
— Philip Zaleski
Not even generals can stop the rain.
— Jeff Shaara
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
— William Wordsworth
Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?
— Margaret Landon
Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.
— Krister Stendahl
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.
— Richard J. Foster
Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
We must worship God before we can reverence parents or women, or root out flunkeyism and money-worship.
— Thomas Hughes
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
— Jonathan Swift
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
— Orson Pratt
Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.
— William Bernard Ullathorne
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
— Sherry Turkle
Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
— George Eliot
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
— Timothy Keller
Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god.
— Denis De Rougemont
For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.
— Jonathan Darman
Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.
— Sherry Turkle
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
— Robert Charles Wilson
Shakespeare might have said, we are consumed with that with which we are nourished by.
— Sherry Turkle
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
— Colin S. Smith
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
— Thomas A Kempis
One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
— Swami Vivekananda
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
— Pope John Paul II
Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.
— Richard J. Mouw
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
— Oswald Chambers
We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.
— David Platt
The only way that we can avoid the sin of idolatry is by immersing ourselves in Spirit-enlightened study of God through the Scripture.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.
— Isaac Newton
Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?
— Paul David Tripp
The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
— James Russell Lowell
Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
— Jen Pollock Michel
Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.
— Sherry Turkle
To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion
— Richard J. Foster
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
— Lionel Blue
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
— Austin O'Malley
He fetishized limits.
— Rick Perlstein
Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.
— Swami Vivekananda
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
— Sherry Turkle
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
— Simone Weil
Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
— Meryl Streep
Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.
— Philip Zaleski
The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
— Paul David Tripp
We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.
— C.S. Lewis
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
— Anne Lamott
Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration.
— C.S. Lewis
King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.
— Harold Bloom
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
— Erich Fromm
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.
— Swami Vivekananda
Obsession is an idolatry word.
— Kyle Idleman
We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him.
— Barbara Hughes
De Tocqueville says it comes from taking some "incomplete joy of this world" and building your entire life on it. That is the definition of idolatry.
— Timothy Keller
Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed.
— Robert A. Caro
She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after. — Nick Bantock
If we was master, then we could help ourselves.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
— Jonathan Swift
A. W. Tozer says, "The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."1
— Richard J. Foster
As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
— J.D. Greear
Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
— Paul David Washer
When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry.
— Martin Luther
To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason
— Scot McKnight
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
— Swami Vivekananda
