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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
John Calvin
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If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
Adrian Rogers
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If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
Martin Luther
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We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
John Piper
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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Saint Augustine
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The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
D. A. Carson
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Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.
Rebecca Pippert
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The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
John Ruskin
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Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Lionel Blue
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Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.
Mike Donehey
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Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.
Julian Jaynes
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Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things
Timothy Keller
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Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
Ron Carlson
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Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
Will Herberg
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Simone Weil
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Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
Os Guinness
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The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
Robert Dale Owen
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I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
John Lyly
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
William Hazlitt
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The party at its best has always been a modern party.
Francis Maude
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Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.
Roger E. Olson