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  • Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

  • Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1461, Manonmani Publishers
  • It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

    Ambition   Men   Evil  
    Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
  • The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

    Secret   Vision   Trying  
    Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”
  • One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

    Mother   Mean   India  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama
  • Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

    Letter to the Rev. George V. Coyne on June 01, 1988. "John Paul II on science and religion: reflections on the new view from Rome". Book edited by George Coyne, 1990.
  • When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

    John Hagee (1989). “Being Happy in an Unhappy World”
  • Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.

    Men   People   Tolerance  
  • Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

    Judging   Age   Merit  
    'Letters to his Son' (1774) 27 February 1748
  • For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

  • I don't think anyone is committing idolatry by wanting to live in any part of the world where they can enjoy the basic necessities of life. Granted, many of us here, in the U.S., have well beyond what constitutes basic necessities.

    Source: www.patheos.com
  • Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.

    Earth   Faces   Temples  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 34, 1895.
  • Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press
  • We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

    "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.
  • Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.

    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

    Believe   Men   Idols  
  • True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

    Journey   Religion   Doe  
    "Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions". Weekly mailing, September 5, 2007.
  • The Human heart is an idol factory.

    Heart   Idols   Factories  
  • Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

    Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press
  • When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

    J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.27, B&H Publishing Group
  • Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

    Thinking   Idols   Adore  
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.211
  • It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Religion”, p.111, Open Road Media
  • The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

    Doe   Kingdoms   Firsts  
  • It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2002, Delphi Classics
  • Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

    John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.43, Manchester University Press
  • The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

    Heart   Men   Self  
  • Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

  • Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping God, are worshiping a God they don't know. They're worshiping a god that looks more like Santa Claus than the God of Scripture. They're worshiping a god that is a figment of their own imagination. They created a god in their own likeness and they worship the god they've made.

  • Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

    Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”
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