Quotes about Idolatry

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This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solv — Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest t — H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
We are molding Jesus into our image. He's beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is who we are most co — David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
Modernity has abandoned the household gods, not because we have rejected the idolatry as all Christians must, but becaus — Douglas Wilson, Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth
The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being t — Criss Jami, Killosophy
The idea of the Bible as a divine guidebook, a map for getting through the terra incognita of life, is our golden calf. — Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be — Colin S. Smith, Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life
No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of — Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power. — Eric Metaxas
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc — Voltaire
I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you. — Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is — Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest sub — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
If your deepest feelings are reserved for something other than Almighty God, then that something other is an emotional i — Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374). — Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Keep yourselves from idols." The warning isn't given to them because it wasn't a real danger or because there was an off — Joe Thorn, Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself
We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are re — N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and par — Russell D. Moore
The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to b — Craig D. Lounsbrough
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology — Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other