Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Idolatry is worshiping something other than the true God in the true way. — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
“Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?” — Colin S. Smith 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
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and… — Benjamin Stillingfleet 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
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 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
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of… — Orson Pratt 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
“It is good to be connected to family and friends, but when we cannot resist the urge to check updates or upload… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The Church wishes, for example, to apply Rosmini's invitation to 'hear loftily of God' with worthy liturgical celebrations, stripping the concept of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
“Let not my love be called idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Paul’s approach to culture, then, is neither completely confrontational nor totally affirming. He does not simply rail against Greek pride in intellect… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
