A Quote by John Calvin
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.
I used to make fun of those actors who talked about the theater as their temple and their place of worship. I'm not to that degree of zealotry or idolatry of theater as this holy place. But it's a place where I get together with people who do what I do, and we understand each other in that respect.
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry.
If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts.
The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"
You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts, so I want to celebrate Jesus.
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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