Idolatry Quotes
Idolatry Quote of the day
He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.
The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.
About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.
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.
Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.
Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.
This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.
He fetishized limits.
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?
Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.
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.
A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.
To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion
The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
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.
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.
