quotes about Idolatry
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If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
-- Adrian Rogers -
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet -
Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.
-- Christopher J. H. WrightSource : Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.179, InterVarsity Press
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The party at its best has always been a modern party.
-- Francis Maude -
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
-- John Lyly -
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
-- John Selden -
Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.
-- Julian Jaynes -
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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
-- Lionel Blue -
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
-- Martin Luther -
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
-- Os Guinness -
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.
-- Rebecca Pippert -
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The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
-- Robert Dale OwenSource : Robert Dale Owen (1871). “The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next: With Illustrative Narrations”, p.102
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To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.
-- William TyndaleSource : William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317
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Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
-- Will Herberg -
Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.
-- Mike Donehey -
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Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.
-- Roger E. OlsonSource : Source: www.biblegateway.com
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Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
-- Ron CarlsonSource : Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.181, Harvest House Publishers