Quote by Samuel Johnson

“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

We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus,…

— Julian Huxley

“A deeper significance is attached to sacrifice, when the worshipping self and the gods worshipped are realised to be the same.”

— Satischandra Chatterjee

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

— Colin S. Smith

“The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.”

— Erich Fromm

“A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

— James Russell Lowell

“I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.”

— Larry Crabb

“Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.”

— Elizabeth George

“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

“We have worshipped at the altar of inclusion when we were built to worship at the altar of the only living God.”

— Lisa-Jo Baker

“Worship isn’t something other, external, compartmentalized, or confined. It is life with God, lived unto God for his glory and our pleasure.”

— Mike Cosper