I think some of the best modern writing comes now from…

The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not…

— Samir Selmanovic

“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then…

— Samuel Johnson

“‎A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a…

— Richard Keyes

And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect…

— Christopher Columbus

“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods…

— Russell D. Moore

“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When…

— Timothy Keller

“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can…

— Alan Wilson Watts

The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing…

— Matt Chandler

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

— Swami Vivekananda

“The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.”

— John Eldredge

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

— Voltaire

We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its…

— Carl R Trueman

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to…

— George Bernard Shaw