You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne LamottTags: humor truth christianity god spirituality fundamentalism idolatry misattributed-to-anne-lamott
Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god.
Denis de RougemontIf God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
(Notebooks)
Tags: religion atheism idolatry agnostic
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Gustave FlaubertTags: idolatry detachment idols love-disappointment
Idolatry' is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something other than the one true God. It is the tragically pathetic attempt to squeeze life out of lifeless forms that cannot help us meet our real needs.
Scott J. HafemannTags: idolatry
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.
Rebecca Manley PippertYou can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart of every single hearer,
With deepest power, in simple ways.
You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,
Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,
Blowing on a miserable fire,
Made from your heap of dying ash.
Let apes and children praise your art,
If their admiration’s to your taste,
But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,
Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
Tags: individuality art love quest admiration idolatry legacy masterpiece
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonTags: materialism worship idolatry devotional discipleship intimacy-with-god
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 J. KellerTags: idolatry
Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.
Toba BetaTags: civilization worship idolatry early
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