Quotes About Idolatry

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.

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Compromise is sacrifice when it costs you your peace of mind. Friendship is idolatry when it costs you your self-worth. Love is lust when it costs you your purpose.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

And so we have two contrasting portrayals of Paul's view of the pagans and their worship of idols. Do they worship idols out of ignorance? The "Paul" of Acts says yes, Paul in his own writings says no. Does God overlook what they've done? Acts says yes, Paul says no. Are they responsible for their idolatrous activities? Acts says no, Paul says yes. Does God inflict his wrathful judgment on them in the present as a result? Acts says no, Paul says yes.

The crazed Argentine was far more concerned with people worshiping him than protecting the faith.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

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.

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

earth shall err concerning them, and they shall be altered from all their ways, they shall err and take them to be gods.

America leads the world at present in golden-calf production.

When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are going to turn on you, even people in your own family. There is a great irony here: proclaiming so much love, experiencing so much hate! But don't quit.

Left to ourselves we turn God into an object, something we can deal with, some thing we can use to our benefit, whether that thing is a feeling or an idea or an image.

When it comes to dealing with God, most of us spend considerable time trying our own hands at either being or making gods. Jesus blocks the way. Jesus is not a god of our own making and he is certainly not a god designed to win popularity contests.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

I don't believe in icons.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.