If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“In other words, idolatry is always the reason we ever do anything wrong.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your… — Margaret Landon Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.” — Rob Lacey Copy Share Image
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Idols of power, then, are not only for the powerful. You can pursue power in small, petty ways, by becoming a local… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Idolatry isn’t just one of many sins; rather it’s the one great sin that all others come from. So if you start… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The Church wishes, for example, to apply Rosmini's invitation to 'hear loftily of God' with worthy liturgical celebrations, stripping the concept of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiar modern superstition that to achieve success in any area we have to make that area the be all… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
![“Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed… I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious…” quote by Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/89c/thomas-aquinas-837_abandoned_given-the-sin-of-impiety-through-which-t_1913074.jpg)
