Quotes about Idolatry
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
- Martin Luther
The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
- Matt Chandler
If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.
- Craig Keener
Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.
- DL Moody
I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler." from "Dug Down Deep
- Joshua Harris
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
- Ann Voskamp
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
- Timothy Keller
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
- AW Tozer
A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.
- Billy Graham
What you do in secret tells you who your God is.
- Timothy Keller
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
- John Owen