Idolatry Quotes - Page 4

• If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Echoes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.214, Multnomah

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• There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Reality, Idols

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.

  Oscar Romero

  Children, Desire, Selfishness

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• Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Simple, Men, Honor

  "Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians".

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• Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Acceptance, Lord, Control Ourselves

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• The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing him with steadfast passion and enthralled fury — instead of loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; instead of attributing to him glory and honor and praise and power and wisdom and strength — we just try to take his toys and run. It is still idolatry to want God for his benefits but not for himself.

  Matt Chandler

  Wise, Running, Passion

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• 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

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

  Cornel West

  Century, Form, Tribalism

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• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Journey, Labyrinth, Path

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

  Erich Fromm

  Unmasking, Arguing, Form

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Religion”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Men, Cfs

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

  C. S. Lewis

  Military, War, Thinking

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• 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

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• Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

  Will Herberg

  Self, Worship

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• What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

  Emilio Estevez

  People, Interesting, Followers

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Gold, Sake, Blind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

  Simone Weil

  Choices, World, Worship

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.138, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Orson Pratt

  Good Christian, Christianity, Modern

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.13, Latter-day Strength

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• Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Cancer

  Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.179, InterVarsity Press

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• The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Nature, Men

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!

  T. B. Joshua

  Flags, Covenant, Corruption

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• 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.

  Abba Eban

  Ambition, Men, Evil

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Government, Idols

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Idolatry"

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• 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.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, People, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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