Inspirational Quotes on Idolatry

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

“Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?”

“To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion”

“The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.”

“God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.”

“While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.”

“If we love someone more than we love God, it is worse than inordinate - it is idolatry. When God is first in our hearts, all other loves are in order and find their rightful place.”

“It is essential for the image of the Leader that the group does not see the face of the one who goes before, but sees him only from behind as the figure stepping out ahead. His humanity is veiled in his Leader’s form.”

“The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.”

“Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.”

“A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.”

“God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the day all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize that fact was to knock it down.”

“As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.”

“Stella says the name for the house where she and Ms. Havisham live is Stasis, Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three to dub the domicile Enough House. In a healthy soul, this might mean contentment. Or, in seeing what we have as Enough, this can mean we are not open to vulnerability, generosity, or dependence on those who might threaten our Stasis.”

“We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.”

“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.”

“The world is restless today. There are many voices but there is no peace. Men are feverishly saying to a god manufactured to serve the social needs of man: 'Deliver me; for thou art my god.' They are trying to produce decency without principle; they are trying to keep back the raging sea of passion with flimsy mud embankment of self-interest; they are trying to do without the stern, solid masonry of the will of God. When will the vain effort cease? Shall we continue on our wanderings? Shall we continue to stagger like drunken men? Shall we still fashion a divinity that shall serve our utilitarian ends? Shall we amuse ourselves with idols? Or shall we return unto God?”

“Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.”

“Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.”

“If we exalt money, status, or sex above the Word of God, we are living in idolatry. Every time we inwardly submit to the strongholds of fear, bitterness, and pride, we are bowing to the rulers of darkness. Each of these idols must be smashed, splintered, and obliterated from the landscape of our hearts.”