“Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry. — Mike Donehey Copy Share Image
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization. — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry. — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled… — Rebecca Pippert Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God,” Herbert McCabe,… — Joseph A. Heim Copy Share Image
“What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else.… — Ken Sande Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
“Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“Called to responsibility and authority within and over the creation, humans have turned their vocation upside down, giving worship and allegiance to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In a society in which idolatry runs rampant, a church that is not iconoclastic is a travesty. If it is not against… — Herbert Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“The only way that we can avoid the sin of idolatry is by immersing ourselves in Spirit-enlightened study of God through the… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
