Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization. — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. — N. T. Wright 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
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“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
We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.” — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
“Adultery doesn't come until the seventh commandment, and you won't even get to the seventh commandment if you don't violate the first… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals -… — Carl R Trueman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Where’s the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I’ve seen too… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings… — n.t. Wright 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
“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually… — 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
“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“My willingness to sacrifice much-needed rest and my prioritizing amusement or work over the basic needs of my body and the people… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“Idolatry begins with a false separation of gift and giver. Rather than a momentary comparison for the sake of testing our affections,… — Joe Rigney 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
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? — John Calvin 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
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
