Alienation Quote by Erich Fromm

“Idol of idiot-worshippers!”

— William Shakespeare

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

— James Russell Lowell

“The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be…

— A.W. Tozer

“... fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“It is not the rituals of worship that please the gods.”

— Orson Scott Card

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

“Idols aren't just stone statues. No, idols are the thoughts, desires, longings, and expectations that we worship in the place of the true God.…

— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

— Saint Augustine

“If they can worship a weird creature, which is even not existed; why I must not worship a beautiful one who is already here.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and those who…

— Anthony de Mello

“Called to responsibility and authority within and over the creation, humans have turned their vocation upside down, giving worship and allegiance to forces and…

— N.T. Wright

“Religious fetichism finds its original motive in the delusion that its object, i.e., the idol, is not a mere symbol, but possesses divine attributes,…

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing