Idolatrous Quotes

#1. Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

Adrian Desmond

#2. Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

Paul Tillich

#3. I tell you, those Spaniards are rank cowards, as all bullies are. They pray to a woman, the idolatrous rascals! and no wonder they fight like women.

Charles Kinglsey

#4. Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

Will Herberg

#5. An idolatrous attachment can lead you to break any promise, rationalize any indiscretion, or betray any other allegiance, in order to hold on to it. It may drive you to violate all good and proper boundaries. To practice idolatry is to be a slave.

Timothy Keller

#6. An evil and adulterous [idolatrous] generation seeks after a sign (Matt. 12:39 NKJV),

Michael S. Horton

#7. The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

D. A. Carson

#8. We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

Shane Claiborne

#9. We are on the whole an idolatrous people.

Spencer W. Kimball

#10. We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

James Gibbons

#11. American Christian churches have a golden opportunity to put aside our idolatrous ties to Republicans and Democrats and think more critically and creatively about how the gospel relates to our new and emerging political culture. When

Charles C. Camosy

#12. Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

Nhat Hanh

#13. The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.

Ravi Zacharias

#14. The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.

Edward T. Welch

#15. All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.

Orson Pratt

#16. A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

Augustus William Hare

#17. Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.

Stanley Hauerwas

#18. People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. There

Mark Twain

#19. I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

Heidi Julavits

#20. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our
insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult ... Just as love for one
individual which excludes the love for others is not love,
love for one's country which is not part of one's love
for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Erich Fromm

#21. Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.

Carlton D. Pearson

#22. It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help.

Bram Stoker

#23. But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.

Robertson Davies

#24. Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

Miroslav Volf

#25. Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

Dave Hickey

#26. Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God.

Billy Graham

#27. Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

Shawn Amos

#28. Capture your dreams and your life becomes full. You can, because you think you can.

Nikita Koloff

#29. Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature, said Balph Eubank contemptuously.

Ayn Rand

#30. The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

Erich Fromm

#31. Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Erich Fromm

#32. A true friend will never lead you to do something hurtful towards yourself or others but will help out with good things towards you

Timothy Pina

#33. Slavery is an awful thing," stammered out Kayerts in an unsteady voice. "Frightful - the sufferings," grunted Carlier with conviction.

Joseph Conrad

#34. It's far easier to shut yourself off from people than to love them. If you keep your heart surrounded by strong walls, no one can get close enough to you to break it.

Julia Quinn

#35. True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Toys R Us is closing its FAO Schwarz store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, citing the high cost of running the retail space in that location, the company said Friday. It is seeking another Manhattan space.

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