Idolatry Quotes

Idolatry Quote of the day

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!

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?

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

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.

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

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.

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

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

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.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.