Idolatry Quotes

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

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

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

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

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

Science can purify religion from error and superstition.

Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

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?

I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of his idolatry.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry;

and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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.

Logicians may reason about abstractions.

But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity.

Patriotism is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by patriotism I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

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. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

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.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions;

but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

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.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

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

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.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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.