Martin Luther Quotes About Idolatry

Quotes about: Idolatry

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

  Martin Luther

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

• Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

  Martin Luther

  Riches, Merit, Latter

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Good Work, Idolatry

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

  Martin Luther

  Truth, Begging You, Hypocrisy

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.25

• Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Grace, Lapses

  Martin Luther (1972). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.164, CCEL

• The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Abomination, Mass

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.69

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