Quotes About Idolatry

Our heart's desire should be to worship God; we have been designed by God for this purpose. If we don't worship God, we'll worship something or someone else.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

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

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

Men always makes gods in their own image.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

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

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.

If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

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

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.