Top 173 Idolatry Quotes & Sayings

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.

Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry... To have faith in Yahweh is to know that there is a realm of the spirit beyond the comprehension of our minds... Trusting in Molech... or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect - there's no difference in God's eyes. It's all idolatry.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

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

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

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 you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

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

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.

There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

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

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

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

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

Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.

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

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.

How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

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.

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.