Inspirational Quotes on Idolatry

“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”

“Self-righteousness is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it. ”

“An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”

“Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribound souls.”

“What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.”

“If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.”

“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”