Quotes about Idolatry

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

If your deepest feelings are reserved for something other than Almighty God, then that something other is an emotional idol... if you get more excited about material things than the simple yet profound fact that your sin was nailed to the cross by the sinless Son of God, then you're bowing down to Tammuz.

When imagination is sacrificed on the altar of logic, God is robbed of the glory that rightfully belongs to Him. In fact, the death of a dream is often a subtle form of idolatry. We lose faith in the God who gave us the big dream and settle for a small dream that we can accomplish without His help. We go after dreams that don't require divine intervention

All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something's preeminent rather than God.

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

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

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

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Now you see for yourself that all those who do not at at all times trust God and do not in all their works or sufferings, life and death, trust in His favor, grace and good-will, but seek His favor in other things or in themselves, do not keep this Commandment, and practise real idolatry, even if they were to do the works of all the other Commandments, and in addition had all the prayers, fasting, obedience, patience, chastity, and innocence of all the saints combined.

Nothing so provokes God as unbelief, for this means denying God directly and thus committing idolatry.

For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel

lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.