When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
J.D. GreearTags: worship idolatry gospel idols
When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, ‘What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?’ It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger.
Timothy J. KellerTags: happiness security forgiveness anger idolatry bitterness
We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.
Oswald ChambersIt (idolatry) means turning a good thing into an ultimate thing.
Timothy J. KellerTags: idolatry
Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.
James RozoffTags: technology idolatry
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
Oswald ChambersTags: idolatry peace-of-mind
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
Thomas à KempisTags: passion materialism desire idolatry
The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.
SuskindTags: confidence materialism idolatry
All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something’s preeminent rather than God.
Mark DriscollTags: idolatry counseling
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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