Idolatry Quotes

Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two pu...

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel...

Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.He whose worship is directed to a dead thing become...

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mock...

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

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, a...

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How the...

While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew ...

We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was ...

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as...

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the tr...

Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow...

And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything whi...

Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not twoAphrodites, but one...

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You...

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. H...

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which w...

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

If we was master, then we could help ourselves.

Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most rel...

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of th...

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single ...

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, tha...

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

Purge me from every sinful blot;My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought,From ...

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, ...

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he adm...

No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The dista...

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of...

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and h...

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progres...

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, t...

I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: e...

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that ...

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and o...

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and eart...

We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because w...

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.