Idolatry Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idolatry Prayer Should Use Worship
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Idolatry is worshiping something other than the true God in the true way. — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is. — Ron Carlson 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 other than… — Scott J. Hafemann 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 that we… — Colin S. Smith 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 Christian Church… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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 is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a… — Richard Keyes Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.” — John Eldredge 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 security, my… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
