Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“In other words, idolatry is always the reason we ever do anything wrong.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.” — Rob Lacey Copy Share Image
“Practically speaking, when I mix up my roles at any given stage of life with my ultimate identity, I end up in… — Wendy Alsup Copy Share Image
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. — Martial Copy Share Image
“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“For all this, man is embodied and trusting in his senses; he had sooner believe in a sensible improbability than in an… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is committing idolatry by wanting to live in any part of the world where they can enjoy the… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing… — Samuel Johnson 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
“Since sin, the consequence of idolatry, is what keeps humans in thrall to the nongods of the world, dealing with sin has… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Idolatry begins with a false separation of gift and giver. Rather than a momentary comparison for the sake of testing our affections,… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Mahomet now proceeded to execute the great object of his religious aspirations, the purifying of the sacred edifice from the symbols of… — Washington Irving 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
“His response to them as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the… — Joseph Heller 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
“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
