Idolatry Quotes
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.
He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
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.
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.
The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley
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.
King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.
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.
Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength.
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.
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.
Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.
Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
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.
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.
The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.
Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.
Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.
This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.
The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.
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.
Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power.
I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.
The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).
The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.(Joshua Malina, Sports Night)
To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.
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?
The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.
This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.
It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
