Quotes about Idolatry

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

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Anytime we trust an object or activity to give us life and meaning, we worship it.

To be free in Christ, our high places will have to fall. We must be willing to take a stand against idolatry.

He is, after all, the author, eternal possessor, initiator, and giver of love. He cannot be destroyed or made less by unrequited love, but to disassociate Him from the pain and grief associated with love is to carve a convenient idol out of wood or stone bearing no resemblance to the God of the Bible. Within those pages, we find a God who cannot be changed by man but can be affected by man. His immutability does not deplete or delete His affections.

If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.

Whatever we worship will be the biggest motivator of all we do and have the greatest influence on our lives.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and he has substituted gods of his own making. In actuality modern man has decided to dethrone God and enthrone himself in all of his nuclear glory.

We have come to worship things, status, fame, popularity, money, security. Anything that comes between God and ourselves is idolatry. Jesus demands Lordship over all such things.

In America we have an idolatry called the "adulation of youth." Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.