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Tag Name "Idolatry" (79)

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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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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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The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.
Swami Vivekananda
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Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
Swami Vivekananda
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The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!
T. B. Joshua
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There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.
Tullian Tchividjian
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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.
Voltaire
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Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
Will Herberg
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How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
William Cowper
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Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
William Shakespeare
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry and these we adore Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth
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Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
Mary Baker Eddy
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The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
Matt Chandler
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.
Christopher Columbus
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Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.
Matthew Simpson
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