God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.
If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.
Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things
The Human heart is an idol factory.
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.
The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry
When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!
Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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