Idolatry Quotes - Page 6

• The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.

  Simone Weil

  Race, Idols, People

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.6, Routledge

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• To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Justice, Islam, Borders

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• Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.

  Mike Donehey

  Want

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• How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms

  Joe Carter

  Christian, Sex, Two

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• The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

  Richard J. Foster

  Doe, Kingdoms, Firsts

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• Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Father, Islamic

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• Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Mean, Sacrifice

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• I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

  John Lyly

  Wit, Committed

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.43, Manchester University Press

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• A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Choices, Objects

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

  Sydney Brenner

  Technology, Computer, Modern

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• The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

  Prince Charles

  Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

  Krister Stendahl

  Together, Irony, Form

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• On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament) is rooted not in their moral perfection but in their uncompromising dedication to the cause of Yahweh and their rugged trust in the promises of God rather than lapsing into the idolatry of many of their contemporaries.

  Paul Copan

  Hero, Dedication, Perfection

  Paul Copan (2011). “Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God”, p.67, Baker Books

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• Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

  Charles Lamb

  Art, Past, Looks

  Charles Lamb (1860). “Essays of Elia”, p.23

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• The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

  Laurence Housman

  Littles, Modern, Satire

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• Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Omnipotence, Monsters

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Fall, Idols

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• Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Love Is, Self, Hatred

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

  Simone Weil

  Beast, Imitation, Objects

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.164, Psychology Press

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• The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

  Matt Papa

  Joy, Suffering, Enemy

  Matt Papa (2014). “Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ”, p.141, Baker Books

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• And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said

  Christopher Columbus

  Christian, Catholic, Enemy

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• I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority.

  James Luther Adams

  Together, Church, Covenant

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• All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have; indeed all their administrations are worse than in vain — they are a solemn mockery in the sight of God.

  Orson Pratt

  Christian, Church, Modern

  "Divine Authority, or, the Question, Was Joseph Smith sent of God?".

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• After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Historical Novels, Venture, Modern

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• MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Thinking, Blessing

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