Christian Quote by A. B. Simpson Download Open image “As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.” — A. B. Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian Christian inspirational God Idols Long Want
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry. — William Bernard Ullathorne 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 other than… — Scott J. Hafemann Copy Share Image
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol. — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to… — Timothy Keller 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 that we… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“Once it was the blessing, Now it is the Lord; Once it was the feeling, Now it is His Word. Once His gifts I… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
A friend ... said, "You were healed by faith." "Oh, no," I said, "I was healed by Christ." What is the difference? There is… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts. — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive. — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power,… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly? — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting. — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image