Inspirational Quotes on Idolatry

“Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration.”

“To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion”

“Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?”

“The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.”

“God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.”

“It is essential for the image of the Leader that the group does not see the face of the one who goes before, but sees him only from behind as the figure stepping out ahead. His humanity is veiled in his Leader’s form.”

“If we love someone more than we love God, it is worse than inordinate - it is idolatry. When God is first in our hearts, all other loves are in order and find their rightful place.”

“Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.”

“While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.”

“The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.”

“A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.”

“We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.”

“Stella says the name for the house where she and Ms. Havisham live is Stasis, Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three to dub the domicile Enough House. In a healthy soul, this might mean contentment. Or, in seeing what we have as Enough, this can mean we are not open to vulnerability, generosity, or dependence on those who might threaten our Stasis.”

“God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the day all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize that fact was to knock it down.”

“As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.”

“There is nothing so abominable in the eyes of God and of men as idolatry, whereby men render to the creature that honor which is due only to the Creator”

“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.”

“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”

“All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.”

“False gods patiently endure the existence of other false gods. Dagon can stand with Bel, and Bel with Ashtaroth; how should stone, and wood, and silver, be moved to indignation; but because God is the only living and true God, Dagon must fall before His ark; Bel must be broken, and Ashtaroth must be consumed with fire.”