If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.” — Rob Lacey Copy Share Image
“In other words, idolatry is always the reason we ever do anything wrong.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your… — Margaret Landon Copy Share Image
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry. Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“My point is that when we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols… — Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“If I am right, then enjoying music involves a kind of outward-going sympathetic movement. In music, as in sex and architecture, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
300 years after the rise of Islam there were Zoroastrians in Iran. The Muslim armies never forced people to accept Islam. It… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr 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
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
“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
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
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
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