“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." ( Notebooks )” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God. — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Practically speaking, when I mix up my roles at any given stage of life with my ultimate identity, I end up in… — Wendy Alsup Copy Share Image
The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry. Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Apart from Christ, there can only be a “fleeting knowledge of God” that quickly turns to the vinegar of idolatry and superstition,… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“The fact that we fail at seeing these things, that our interpretations may perpetrate violence against a text, and so on, is… — Tiffany Eberle Kriner Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
“Technology presents us with a unique spiritual challenge. Because it is meant to serve us in fulfilling our created purpose, because it… — Tim Challies Copy Share Image
“The recognition that idolatry really consists in making gods for ourselves and putting our trust in them is the great breakthrough in… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Idolatry is worshiping something other than the true God in the true way. — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
