Idolatry Quotes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

— William Wordsworth

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

— John Ruskin

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

— James Russell Lowell

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

— Swami Vivekananda

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

— David Hackworth

Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.

— Christopher J. H. Wright

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— D. A. Carson

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." ( Notebooks )”

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

Our duty was to declare God's standards to the world: no adultery, no fornication, no gays, no idolatry.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

— John Bach

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.”

— Donna Tartt

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

— Mark Buchanan

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that…

— Richard J. Foster

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

“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

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never…

— Martin Luther

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would…

— Trevor Nunn

“Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of ancient mythologists, accomodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and yet it…

— Thomas Paine

I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations,…

— James Luther Adams

“The satisfied soul is knit to God. That soul has recognized that only God is worthy of the insanity of love, and…

— Eric Gimour

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

— Samuel Johnson

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Christopher Columbus

“(This Side Idolatry), but it was a merely personal attack, concerned for the most part with Dickens's treatment of his wife. It…

— George Orwell

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing…

— Mary Russell Mitford

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity…

— Daniel Yergin

“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the…

— Criss Jami

“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It is a peculiar modern superstition that to achieve success in any area we have to make that area the be all…

— Os Guinness

“In fact, the death of a dream is often a subtle form of idolatry. We lose faith in the God who gave…

— Mark Batterson

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection…

— Jonathan Edwards

“I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: each time I…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when…

— Timothy Keller

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

— Russell D. Moore

“Idolatry isn’t just one of many sins; rather it’s the one great sin that all others come from. So if you start…

— Kyle Idleman