Quotes About Bible Idolatry

#1. 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

#2. To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

N. T. Wright

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.

David Platt

#6. 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

#7. Nothing is real but dreams and love.

Anna De Noailles

#8. A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Benazir Bhutto

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

Os Guinness

#12. Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.

Joseph Sobran

#13. When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.

George Burns

#14. 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

#15. The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

D. A. Carson

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. My skin is pretty low-maintenance, but I'm a big sunscreen wearer, which I think is the big thing when it comes to wrinkles, right?

Deborah Ann Woll