Quotes of: Idolatry Keyword

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Darwinia

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

Karen Armstrong

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection...

Sharron Angle

Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held...

What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

John Bach

Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry... To have faith in Yahweh is to know that there is a realm of the spirit bey...

Gods and Kings

In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of G...

The Idolatry of God: Breaking the Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

John Selden

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Ann Oakley

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

Voltaire

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Orson Pratt

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Lionel Blue

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

William Wordsworth

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

John Ortberg