“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.” — Timothy Keller 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
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry. — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
“A believer is drawn into idolatry when he allows his heart to be stirred with discontentment and looks for satisfaction outside of… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“If we have forgotten our total dependency upon God, then there is nothing left for us but to try to depend upon… — Charles Upton Copy Share Image
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“the city, while an accumulator of the energies of culture, is also an accumulator of potencies of evil (Amos 3:9; Micah 1:5).”15… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. In the wilderness God gave Israel the manna every day, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton 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
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“It is a single paradigm, and single paradigms, no matter how helpful in and of themselves, can be dangerous. They become the… — James Rozoff 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
“Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
![“[Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.” quote by Gregory A. Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/gregory-a-boyd-9424_accepting_those-who-accept-the-americanized-consta_1814834.jpg)
