If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is committing idolatry by wanting to live in any part of the world where they can enjoy the… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“For all this, man is embodied and trusting in his senses; he had sooner believe in a sensible improbability than in an… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its… — Northrop Frye 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
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
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
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
Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.” — Matt McCook Copy Share Image
Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry. — William Bernard Ullathorne Copy Share Image
“You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.” — The Skit Guys Copy Share Image
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who… — H.W. Brands 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
This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of… — Swami Vivekananda 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
“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
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right? — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance… — Albert J. Nock 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
![“[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)
