We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
“Idolatry arises from the notion that “men do not believe God is with them unless he shows himself physically present.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Luther argues that when we fail to believe that God accepts us fully in Christ, and look to some other way to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Human beings are always tempted to love and serve things in the creation rather than the Creator. So often, we think of… — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
“Other than out of a pure curiosity and the aim for veracity, or perhaps for educational purposes, why should it matter to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“It is essential for the image of the Leader that the group does not see the face of the one who goes… — Dietrich bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“A believer is drawn into idolatry when he allows his heart to be stirred with discontentment and looks for satisfaction outside of… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.” — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their… — Mel White Copy Share Image
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right? — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
“Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
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