Quotes about Idolatry
Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.
— AW Tozer
And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.
— 1 Kings 12:30
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
— Jeremiah 2:11
When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.
— Paul David Tripp
Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you.
— Craig Groeschel
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
— Judges 10:14
The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means—to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry.
— Dennis Prager
When a god is fashioned into a golden commodity (or even lesser material); divine subject becomes divine object, and agent becomes commodity.
— Walter Brueggemann
When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God.
— NT Wright
For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel
— Martin Luther
When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
— Judges 18:18
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
— Jeremiah 2:28