Quotes About Idolatry

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.

Nothing is prettier, better, or holier in the sight of men than idolatry and godlessness adorned with hypocrisy and a show of piety. An evil deed in the sight of God, however, is one that is undertaken without faith and the Word, by our own efforts, however good and beautiful it may appear.

As [in paradise] God created people [that people] [72] might create God,91 so also in this world people make gods and worship what they have created. It would be more fitting for gods to worship people.

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

Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.

The workman made it, therefore it is not God. To represent an infinite Spirit by an image, and the great Creator by the image of a creature, is the greatest affront we can put upon God and the greatest cheat we can put upon ourselves. As

Those that multiply gods multiply griefs to themselves; for, whoever thinks one God too little, will find two too many, and yet hundreds not enough.

That creature which we idolize God justly removes from us, or embitters to us.

The relics of idolatry ought to be abolished as affronts to the holy God and a great reproach to human nature.

Therefore men are deceived in false gods, that they may depend on the true God only.

The glitz and glamour of the megapolis and modern times had become the golden calves that were being worshipped throughout the planet.

Theology does not come easily. Better put, faithful theology comes by grace or not at all, while idolatry comes quite naturally to those of us who make our bed east of Eden.

The central theological principle of the Bible [is] the rejection of idolatry.

The idolatry of whiteness and the cloak of innocence that shields it can only be quenched by love, but not merely, or even primarily, a private, personal notion of love, but a public expression of love that holds us all accountable. Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

In the Middle Ages, people would have pictures or statues of the Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, or a favourite saint. Today, people have pictures, posters or statues of celebrities: actors, sports stars, TV stars, fictional characters. Is that an improvement?

God withdrew from the temple in Ezekiel's day because He would not and could not dwell together with idolatry, immorality, and violence. The principle will never change—the Lamb will not be married to someone who remains wedded to his sins, in spite of what some modern teachers claim.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

El hombre es un fin, no un medio. La civilización toda se endereza al hombre, a cada hombre, a cada yo. ¿O qué es ese ídolo, llámese Humanidad o como se llamare, a que se han de sacrificar todos y cada uno de los hombres? Porque

Idolatria e' scambiare il mezzo con il fine.

You must completely destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess have served their gods: on high mountains, on hills, under a spreading tree. You must tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles [asherahs], set fire to the carved images of their gods, and wipe their name from that place. (Deuteronomy 16:20)

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the cosmos is out of joint. Instead of humans being God's wise vice-regents over creation, they ignore the creator and try to worship something less demanding, something that will give them a short-term fix of power or pleasure.

But to reject, marginalize, trivialize, or be suspicious of the sacraments (and quasi-sacramental acts such as lighting a candle, bowing, washing feet, raising hands in the air, crossing oneself and so forth) on the grounds that such things CAN be superstitious or idolatrous or that some people might suppose they are putting God in their debt, is like rejecting sexual relations in marriage on the grounds that it's the same act that in other circumstances constitutes immorality.

since humans are made for the life that comes from God and God alone, to worship that which is not God is to fall in love with death. Here

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God.