Idolatry Quotes - Page 2

• If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Idols, Failing, Christ

  "Counterfeit Gods: When the Empty Promises of Love, Money and Power Let You Down". Book by Timothy Keller, 2010.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Respect, Idols

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Idols, People

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.83, Penguin

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• We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Idols, History, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.210

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• To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

  N. T. Wright

  Reading, Danger, Overprotective

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• Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Men, Animal, Bird

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• Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Idol Worship, Opinion, Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Idols, Mad

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.291

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• Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brain, May, Idol Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1461, Manonmani Publishers

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• 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.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Men, Idols

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• The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Essence, Entertainment, Unworthy

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.6, Fig

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• Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

  Northrop Frye

  Understanding, Intellectual, Atheism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Abomination, Mass

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.69

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• An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Mistake, Book

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• The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Secret, Vision, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Gone, World, Idol Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.160, Advaita Ashrama

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

  John Selden

  Men, Idols, Opinion

  John Selden (1786). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses”, p.64

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• The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

  Peter Kreeft

  Opposites, Atheism, Theism

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• Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brother, Idol Worship, Helping

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

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• Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Blessed, Dust, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

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• The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Idols, Doe, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3690, Manonmani Publishers

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• Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

  William Wordsworth

  Thinking, Idols, Adore

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.211

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• Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Exercise, Men, Air

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.212, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Philosopher, Common, Heathen

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• Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

  Lionel Blue

  Saws, Reefs, Repression

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