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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“Luther argues that when we fail to believe that God accepts us fully in Christ, and look to some other way to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“It is essential for the image of the Leader that the group does not see the face of the one who goes… — Dietrich bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Idolatry arises from the notion that “men do not believe God is with them unless he shows himself physically present.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God,” Herbert McCabe,… — Joseph A. Heim Copy Share Image
“Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled… — Rebecca Pippert Copy Share Image
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry. — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Called to responsibility and authority within and over the creation, humans have turned their vocation upside down, giving worship and allegiance to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“The only way that we can avoid the sin of idolatry is by immersing ourselves in Spirit-enlightened study of God through the… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“In a society in which idolatry runs rampant, a church that is not iconoclastic is a travesty. If it is not against… — Herbert Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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