Top 27 Idolatry In The Bible Quotes
#1. The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
D. A. Carson
#2. the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry.
Peter Enns
#3. For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
Horace
#4. Europe is not old; it's rotten. Most Europeans are ignorant, racist, greedy and lazy.
Daniel Marques
#5. People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney
#6. You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large ... Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.
Melisa M. Hamling
#7. Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.
James Rozoff
#8. I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians' idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.
Kristen Reed
#9. We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
John Ortberg
#10. I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
Mika.
#12. America does not run on gas, oil, or coal any more than we may one day run on wind, solar, or tidal power. America runs on electricity.
Gretchen Bakke
#14. Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
Os Guinness
#15. Doesn't nature reach her goal even though most people falsely determine the purpose of their own efforts?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.
Billy Graham
#17. I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.
Sophie Edington
#18. Days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too._Eric Packer
Don DeLillo
#19. The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.
Billy Graham
#20. We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.
David Platt
#21. The idea of the Bible as a divine guidebook, a map for getting through the terra incognita of life, is our golden calf. It's a substitute for the wilderness wandering that the life of faith necessarily entails.
Timothy Beal
#22. If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.
Colin S. Smith
#23. To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. Wright
#24. Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity,
I owe the happiest moments of my life,
let me fall prostrate.
Colley Cibber
#25. Our soul's problem, however, is not its neediness; it's our fallenness. Our need was meant to point us to God. Instead, we fasten our minds and bodies and wills on other sources of ultimate devotion, which the Bible calls idolatry.
John Ortberg
#26. I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me - I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
Dan Feuerriegel
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