Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?
Paul David TrippThus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: materialism idolatry
The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodity is taken for granted. The government, flush with wealth, is expected to be generous. When the price of that commodity drops, a government which would remain in power dare not cut back on this generosity.
Daniel YerginTags: materialism idolatry prosperity dependence
Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
Paul David WasherTags: idolatry poor-in-spirit
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther DysonTags: technology addiction internet idolatry
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
Jules VerneTags: technology gratitude idolatry
What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.
Ken SandeTags: selfishness idolatry glory-of-god
The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
Paul David TrippTags: materialism idolatry
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.
He who loves corruption rots.
He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow.
He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.
No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions
about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when our
appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.
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