“You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.” — The Skit Guys Copy Share Image
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry. — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of ancient mythologists, accomodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and yet it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The satisfied soul is knit to God. That soul has recognized that only God is worthy of the insanity of love, and… — Eric Gimour Copy Share Image
“All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something’s preeminent rather than… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“It is good to be connected to family and friends, but when we cannot resist the urge to check updates or upload… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
“The reality is, when someone knows the truth, knows the will of God, knows what God has spoken , and yet pushes… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
“Christian worship of Jesus is an idolatry much worse than the Israelites’ worship of the golden calf, for the Christians err in… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Idolatry' is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something… — Scott J. Hafemann Copy Share Image
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“There will be no danger of idolatry. The earth and the heavens and all things will declare the glory of God, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“It is a single paradigm, and single paradigms, no matter how helpful in and of themselves, can be dangerous. They become the… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. In the wilderness God gave Israel the manna every day, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“the city, while an accumulator of the energies of culture, is also an accumulator of potencies of evil (Amos 3:9; Micah 1:5).”15… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Modernity has abandoned the household gods, not because we have rejected the idolatry as all Christians must, but because we have rejected… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
