Idolatry Quotes
I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis
The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.
She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.
Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.
Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?
I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.
All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.
When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.
My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.
Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.
Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.
Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.
About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.
He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.
For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.
To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion
Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.
When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.
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.
Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.
We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.
A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.
Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.
The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.
He fetishized limits.
Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.
Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.
This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.
Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.
As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.
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.
One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.
Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.