Quotes about Idolatry
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
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.
— Nancy Pearcey
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!
— Pope Francis
When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.
— Pope Francis
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
— RC Sproul
Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
— John Piper
If you delight more in God's gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
— Charles Spurgeon
If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
— AW Tozer
If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?
— Timothy Keller
If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.
— Timothy Keller
If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.
— Timothy Keller
Whatever we make the most of is our God.
— Martin Luther