To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms — Joe Carter Copy Share Image
“...[G]old is their god, and for riches will they pawn their lives as well as their lands.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry. — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“Here’s the point: idolatry is the tree from which our sins and struggles grow.” — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
“The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals -… — Carl R Trueman Copy Share Image
“If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“Adultery doesn't come until the seventh commandment, and you won't even get to the seventh commandment if you don't violate the first… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.” — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . . Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise; Thou ever-bubbling spring… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Where’s the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I’ve seen too… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
“The Bible is right: A deluge of images does encourage idolatry. Look at the cults of personality in America today. Look at… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Keep yourselves from idols." The warning isn't given to them because it wasn't a real danger or because there was an off… — Joe Thorn Copy Share Image
“We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings… — n.t. Wright Copy Share Image
“His response to them [women] as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“If I am right, then enjoying music involves a kind of outward-going sympathetic movement. In music, as in sex and architecture, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
300 years after the rise of Islam there were Zoroastrians in Iran. The Muslim armies never forced people to accept Islam. It… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Paul’s approach to culture, then, is neither completely confrontational nor totally affirming. He does not simply rail against Greek pride in intellect… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Let not my love be called idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image