Idolatry Quotes

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

~ Rick Perlstein

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

~ Donald Miller

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

~ Albert Einstein

If we was master, then we could help ourselves.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.

~ James Macdonald

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

~ Donald Miller

This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.

~ Sherry Turkle

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.

~ Toba Beta

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

~ Harold Bloom

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.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him. And they cried out in a great voice: He made us. CS Lewis

~ Philip Zaleski

The longing for Joy is in itself Joy. When he recalled when he had experienced Joy, he was, in that recollection, experiencing Joy anew, though he knew it not. Joy was not a state; it was an arrow pointing to something beyond all states, something objective yet unattainable – at least in our earthly existence.

~ Philip Zaleski

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

~ Paul David Tripp

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.

~ John Piper

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

~ Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.

~ Jeremy Camp

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

~ James Macdonald

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

~ Colin S. Smith

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

~ J.d. Greear

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

~ Colin S. Smith

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

~ Jeremy Camp

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

~ Oswald Chambers

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

~ Esther Dyson

Technology presents us with a unique spiritual challenge. Because it is meant to serve us in fulfilling our created purpose, because it makes our lives easier, longer, and more comfortable, we are prone to assign to it something of a godlike status. We easily rely on technology to give our lives meaning, and we trust technology to provide an ultimate answer to the frustration of life in a fallen world. Because of this, technology is uniquely susceptible to becoming an idol, raising itself to the place of God in our lives.

~ Tim Challies

All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.

~ Sherry Turkle

When one becomes accustomed to companionship without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.

~ Sherry Turkle

My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.

~ Sherry Turkle

Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.

~ Sherry Turkle

Adams was in a hurry and ordered his horse drawn carriage to wait for him in front of his house. The horses were spooked before he got in the carriage, and the carriage was destroyed in an accident. Pondering what could have happened to him , Adams retreated to Psalm 20's injunctions against trusting in chariots and horses.

~ Paul C. Nagel

Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.

~ James Rozoff

To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed.

~ Robert A. Caro

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

~ John Piper

Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.

~ Richard Rohr