Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing. — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“To be free in Christ, our high places will have to fall. We must be willing to take a stand against idolatry.” — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity. — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry. — William Bernard Ullathorne Copy Share Image
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . . Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise; Thou ever-bubbling spring… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“Practically speaking, when I mix up my roles at any given stage of life with my ultimate identity, I end up in… — Wendy Alsup Copy Share Image
“I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Idols of power, then, are not only for the powerful. You can pursue power in small, petty ways, by becoming a local… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“His response to them [women] as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“God is most high. To choose God, his light, his way his truth (all Christ), means everything flows from the highest point.… — Elizabeth Scalia Copy Share Image
There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty… — Tullian Tchividjian 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
“Christians recognize that all social organizations exist as parodies of eschatological hope. And so it is that the city is a poor… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
“Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Technology presents us with a unique spiritual challenge. Because it is meant to serve us in fulfilling our created purpose, because it… — Tim Challies Copy Share Image
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The fact that we fail at seeing these things, that our interpretations may perpetrate violence against a text, and so on, is… — Tiffany Eberle Kriner Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“The recognition that idolatry really consists in making gods for ourselves and putting our trust in them is the great breakthrough in… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected… Hoarding is idolatry. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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