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Tag Name "Idolatry" (79)

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
Paul Washer
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Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.
Pope Francis
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Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
Ron Carlson
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John Selden
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things
Timothy Keller
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Saint Augustine
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Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.
Julian Jaynes
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The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.
Martin Luther
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The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!
Mary Russell Mitford
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A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
Austin O'Malley
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The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.
Matt Papa
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Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.
Christopher J. H. Wright
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Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.
Michael Sandel
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. Wright
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Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Northrop Frye
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When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority.
James Luther Adams
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Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.
Richard Rohr
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