Answers Quote by John Shelby Spong

Idolatry is worshiping something other than the true God in the true way.

— John Macarthur

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

— Austin O'Malley

The idol is the expression of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

“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

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

— Saint Augustine

True religion is the realization of truth.

— Franz Hartmann

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton