Quotes about Idolatry
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
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
Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.
- Martin Luther
When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.
- Peter Kreeft
People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
- Karen Kingsbury