Quotes About Idolatry

He interacts according to the nature of the covenantal choices he is making. Either he responds to the goodness and mercy of God in faith or he responds in unbelief. Either he grows to love and trust the living God, or he turns more fully to various forms of idolatry and self-reliance. The story is not just the nature of the shaping influences of his life, but how he has responded to God in the context of those shaping influences.

Our kids are always serving something, either God or a substitute for God—an idol of the heart. 

If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

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.

Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any positions of political power.

He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic: the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma, We cannot make a mistake. Their magic consists in this: that whenever they do make a mistake, which is quite often, it is perpetuated and thereby becomes a non-mistake.…

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

We are taught early here to see Nature as a foe to be subdued. But I came, by stages, to worship it. You could say that for me, this island and her bounties became the first of my false gods, the original sin that begot so much idolatry.

Puritans had sought to eliminate Christmas mince pies as "idolatry in crust"; the minions of the French Revolution came down hard on bakers who dared term their Epiphany treats "Galette des rois" in honor of the Three Kings. Didn't they know France was now a regicide nation with no time for royalty? "King Cakes" perforce became "Liberty Cakes

What the defenders of Christmas were doing was not keeping harmless old customs but rather perpetuating paganism and idolatry.

When you raise a god instead of a child, you're bound to be serving him for the rest of your days. Same thing holds when you marry a god.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion.

Our duty was to declare God's standards to the world: no adultery, no fornication, no gays, no idolatry.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

When men make gods, there is no God!

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.