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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
The party at its best has always been a modern party.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.
Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.
Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
Our duty was to declare God's standards to the world: no adultery, no fornication, no gays, no idolatry.
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.
Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
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.
My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but 'Nostalghia' really didn't do anything for me. 'The Sacrifice' was similarly disappointing for me. Next thing we knew, he was dead.
Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave off age just a little while longer.
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.
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.