Idolatry Quotes

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

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.

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.

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.

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

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.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

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.

Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.