Inspirational Quotes on Idolatry

“Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately or immoderately upon them.”

“I would neither have you be idle in duties - nor make an idol of duties.”

“The spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped.”

“You don't have to go to heathen lands today to find false gods. America is full of them. Whatever you love more than God is your idol.”

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

“To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in any thing, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.”

“If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.”

“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”

“The difference between grace and works is the difference between worship and idolatry. The man inebriated with the thought that all he has is Yahweh's gift finds himself repeatedly on his knees, adoring, thanking, praising. But if we do not grasp grace we plummet into idolatry, for that is the inevitable corollary of self-sufficiency.”

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

“An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”

“A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.”

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

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

“Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.”

“What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.”

“The essence of idolatry is enjoying the gifts but not honoring the Giver.”

“He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.”

“The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.”

“If we exalt money, status, or sex above the Word of God, we are living in idolatry. Every time we inwardly submit to the strongholds of fear, bitterness, and pride, we are bowing to the rulers of darkness. Each of these idols must be smashed, splintered, and obliterated from the landscape of our hearts.”