“When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“It is so very sad to find a worldly Christian who is sure—according to him or her—of that security that the faith… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance… — St. Augustine of Hippo 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
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 you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Human beings are always tempted to love and serve things in the creation rather than the Creator. So often, we think of… — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Other than out of a pure curiosity and the aim for veracity, or perhaps for educational purposes, why should it matter to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There will be no danger of idolatry. The earth and the heavens and all things will declare the glory of God, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Christian worship of Jesus is an idolatry much worse than the Israelites’ worship of the golden calf, for the Christians err in… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Idolatry' is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something… — Scott J. Hafemann Copy Share Image
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else.… — Ken Sande Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
“Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
