“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.” — Matt McCook Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something’s preeminent rather than… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never… — Isaac Newton 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
“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
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
“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
“Technology presents us with a unique spiritual challenge. Because it is meant to serve us in fulfilling our created purpose, because it… — Tim Challies Copy Share Image
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
“Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring… — William Carey 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
Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry. — Mike Donehey 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
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? — John Calvin 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
“There will be no danger of idolatry. The earth and the heavens and all things will declare the glory of God, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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