Idolatry Quotes

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

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.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

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

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

Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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