Top 100 Quotes About Idolatry
#1. Idolatry is Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.
Rob Lacey
#2. Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.
Michael Sandel
#3. Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?
Colin S. Smith
#5. The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
Matt Chandler
#6. [Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.
Gregory A. Boyd
#7. I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis
Philip Zaleski
#8. The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.
Sherry Turkle
#10. God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.
Orrin Woodward
#11. If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
Tullian Tchividjian
#13. Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.
Toba Beta
#14. Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.
Krister Stendahl
#15. The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Gustave Flaubert
#16. He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.
Miles Watson
#17. Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?
Margaret Landon
#18. Here's the point: idolatry is the tree from which our sins and struggles grow.
Kyle Idleman
#19. James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.
Bruce Chadwick
#20. If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
Adrian Rogers
#23. This is how worship is connected to our ability to love. When we give our ultimate allegiance to any of the principalities and powers, large or small, we find ourselves perennially at war with anyone who places these things at risk. Idolatry breeds perpetual vigilance and violence.
Richard Beck
#24. It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
Erich Fromm
#25. As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of established religion - but the intelligent quest of the unknowing, in humility and with a clarity of mind
Andrew Ashdown
#26. We stand at a crossroads. Idolatry looms. Traditional values in jeopardy. Truth under siege and virtue abandoned.
Gregory Maguire
#27. Idolatry' is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something other than the one true God. It is the tragically pathetic attempt to squeeze life out of lifeless forms that cannot help us meet our real needs.
Scott J. Hafemann
#28. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
#29. When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#31. To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.
William Tyndale
#32. 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
#33. We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
Sherry Turkle
#34. Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.
Matthew Simpson
#35. This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
Charles Dickens
#36. Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
Mark Buchanan
#37. There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.
Tullian Tchividjian
#38. I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism
the idolatry of the 20th century.
Cornel West
#39. The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.
Matt Papa
#40. Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
Martin Luther
#41. The first sin was rebellion, idolatry, treason, and pride, all rolled into a single bite. Both Adam and Eve made a conscious choice to rebel against their Creator and live on their own terms. And we imitate their decision every time we choose our desires over God's.
Francis Chan
#42. Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.
He who loves corruption rots.
He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow.
He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.
Thomas Merton
#43. Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
Tullian Tchividjian
#44. Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things
Timothy Keller
#45. They stopped their ears and refused to listen to their ministers, and they ceased to correct and admonish one another and their children, choosing instead, greed, privacy, independence, and idolatry.
Peter Marshall
#46. What we choose to set our gaze upon is often a reflection of the idolatry in our heart.
Melissa B. Kruger
#47. Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#48. 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
#49. For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
John Calvin
#50. What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.
Ken Sande
#51. Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
Thomas A Kempis
#52. Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II
#53. Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
Lord Chesterfield
#54. All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#55. We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him.
Barbara Hughes
#56. It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
Abba Eban
#57. In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Trevor Nunn
#58. To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. Wright
#60. 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
#61. A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
Austin O'Malley
#62. Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
Tom Clancy
#63. 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
#64. We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.
Paul David Tripp
#65. We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.
David Platt
#66. The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#67. We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such postures and perspectives put us in danger of conceptual idolatry, worshiping our ideas of and frameworks for God.
Tim Keel
#68. Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#70. Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
Mary Baker Eddy
#71. To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.
Rick Perlstein
#72. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.
Lynn Austin
#73. I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
John Lyly
#74. Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin
#75. She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.
Nick Bantock
#76. For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel
Martin Luther
#77. 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
#78. Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
Isaac Newton
#79. The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.
H.W. Brands
#80. This business of earning your daily bread is really sad and wearisome. People come up with the most pious lies about work. It's just another abominable form of idolatry, a dog licking the rod that beats it: work.
Luther Blissett
#81. Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.
Eric Metaxas
#82. Whatever thing a man sets his heart on ... is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.
Spencer W. Kimball
#83. Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.
Mary E. DeMuth
#84. The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means - to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry.
Dennis Prager
#85. A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.
Matt McCook
#86. [T]he superstitions to be feared in the present day are much less religious than political; and of all the forms of idolatry I know none more irrational and ignoble than this blind worship of mere numbers. - William Lecky, Democracy and Liberty
Bryan Caplan
#87. A theology of unknowing is necessary for a theology of knowing because without it God would not be worshipped as infinite but rather as a creature, and that would be idolatry.10
Thomas Moore
#88. The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
Simone Weil
#89. You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.
The Skit Guys
#90. Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Ann Oakley
#91. A. W. Tozer says, "The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."1
Richard J. Foster
#92. Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.
Mike Donehey
#93. The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.
Martin Luther
#94. 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
#95. Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.
James MacDonald
#97. The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).
Richard Baxter
#98. A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.
Susan Sontag
#99. The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.
Isaac Newton
#100. Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.
Eli Pariser
