Quotes About Idolatry

The romanticization of nature was idol worship, he inveighed, the deification of the created over the Creator.

The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler." from "Dug Down Deep

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and he has substituted gods of his own making. In actuality modern man has decided to dethrone God and enthrone himself in all of his nuclear glory.

We have come to worship things, status, fame, popularity, money, security. Anything that comes between God and ourselves is idolatry. Jesus demands Lordship over all such things.

In America we have an idolatry called the "adulation of youth." Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.

If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.

Supporters of the [environmental] movement often appear to worship not the God of heaven, but the god of nature. This is a dangerous form of idolatry. Anytime animal life becomes more sacred in our view than human life, we have lost sight of our proper priorities.

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.

If you have any kind of habit that is more powerful then God within you, then it is your God.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden

Our assignment is affirmative: to forsake the things of the world as ends in themselves; to leave off idolatry and press forward in faith; to carry the gospel to our enemies, that they might no longer be our enemies.

No longer, then, follow after false and deceitful gods; abjure them rather, and despise them, bursting forth into true liberty. Gods they are not, but malignant spirits, to whom your eternal happiness will be a sore punishment.

For he cannot be free from infelicity who worships Felicity as a goddess, and forsakes God, the giver of felicity; just as he cannot be free from hunger who licks a painted loaf of bread, and does not buy it of the man who has a real one.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

If your fancied god hates those you hate, then, this bumbling idiot is as little, and as buggered, as you are, O' little one.

Instead of loving the Trinity of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), we tend to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I.

Más vil que un lupanar, la carnicería rubrica como una afrenta la calle. Sobre el dintel una ciega cabeza de vaca preside el aquelarre de carne charra y mármoles finales con la crueldad de un ídolo

They mistake their star, these papery godfolk.

The people of this world make a god for themselves in their own image, and in doing so they make God far, far, far, too small.

Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves.