Quotes about Idols

others, and so on. And anything that is opposed to God in our lives is actually one of the many gods of the kingdom of earth. You will always be running scared if you worship other gods, because idols can't deliver on their promises.

What does your worship look like? Anxiety, despair, shopping, primping, acting like someone you aren't, acting stupid when you are smart, or acting like you don't care when you do? Why do you do it? You are hoping that, if you worship it correctly, the idol will give you what you want. But idols are notoriously slow in responding.

Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs" (Jonah 2:8).

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

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

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.