Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
John PiperEvery man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
George EliotAs history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
Elizabeth A. JohnsonTags: metaphor theology idolatry
By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.
(Joshua Malina, Sports Night)
Tags: humility satire ghosts idolatry holy-spirit
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
Tullian TchividjianWhatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
Martin LutherYour pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
Tullian TchividjianThe males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.
H.W. BrandsTags: materialism idolatry
You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.
The Skit GuysTags: idolatry discipleship
Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the cosmos is out of joint. Instead of humans being God's wise vice-regents over creation, they ignore the creator and try to worship something less demanding, something that will give them a short-term fix of power or pleasure.
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