Idolatry Quotes · Page 7

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

— Susan Sontag

“One man's faith is considered idolatry by another”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms

— Joe Carter

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

— James Russell Lowell

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

— Francis Maude

Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time,…

— Michael Sandel

I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries…

— Lord Byron

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it…

— Charles Spurgeon

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every…

— C. S. Lewis

[Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they…

— Gregory A. Boyd

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.

— Roger E. Olson

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly…

— Marva Dawn

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

— Timothy Keller

Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them…

— Thomas Aquinas

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

— D. A. Carson

The idol is the expression of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally…

— Steve Corbett

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil…

— Abba Eban

Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as…

— Mahatma Gandhi

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

— John Ruskin

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“You become who you worship.”

— Mac Canoza

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