Quotes about Idolatry

God designed us to be worshipers. Everything we do is the product of worship. We are always giving our hearts to something, and if it's not God, it's something God created. All

The war that rages in all our hearts is a war between the awe of God and the awe of self. The war really does somehow turn all of us into glory thieves. Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

Idolatry occurs when anything created to point you to God replaces God in the thoughts and desires of your heart.

they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen" (Rom. 1:25).

whenever you ask creation to do what only the Creator can do, you are on your way to addiction.

Many people will get up today and in some way will ask creation to be their savior, that is, to give them what only God is able to give.

Worshiping the creation is never a pathway to life; it leads you in the opposite direction.

The question is not whether you will worship, but rather what you will worship—your glorious Creator or something he created.

the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry.

When we grab hold of "correct" thinking for dear life, when we refuse to let go because we think that doing so means letting go of God, when we dig in our heels and stay firmly planted even when we sense that we need to let go and move on, at that point we are trusting our thoughts rather than God. We have turned away from God's invitation to trust in order to cling to an idol.

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

You shall have no other gods before Me.