If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.
Richard RohrTags: humility status-quo conservatism idolatry
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
Richard RohrTags: passion emotion desire idolatry regeneration
I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.
Richard RohrWhatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.
Richard RohrTags: creation idolatry glory-of-god
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
Tom ClancyTags: religion sports idolatry
Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake’s view. Next they’d be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war. Snowman longs to question them—who first had the idea of making a reasonable facsimile of him, of Snowman, out of a jar lid and a mop? But that will have to wait.
Margaret AtwoodTags: idolatry
God is most high. To choose God, his light, his way his truth (all Christ), means everything flows from the highest point. To choose something lesser is to compel your life to flow from a lesser rise — a hill, rather than a mountain.
Elizabeth ScaliaTags: idolatry glory-of-god
The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.
John EldredgeTags: marriage idolatry self-examination
James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.
Bruce ChadwickTags: idolatry workaholism
Be my God, so I can just be me.
Laura StoryTags: individuality idolatry
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