Quotes about Idolatry

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

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

The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship.

Addicts have already proven to themselves that there are things in this world that are more attractive to them than God himself, whether it is comfort, power, pleasure, or reputation. Whatever they have worshipped, however, cannot compare to the God who has revealed himself as the One who always says, "I love you," before we say it to him.

The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.

But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

Without some deconstruction, everything becomes idolatrous. The prophets were religious deconstructionists.

You will have many more Aarons building you golden calves than Moseses leading you on any exodus.