Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Idolatry

• Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, War, Men

• To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Justice, Islam, Borders

• Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Use, Worship, Should

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