234 Quotes About Idolatry

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

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.

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

When we give up on what draws us near to God, we become like beasts.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Fundamentalism is a lot like idolatry because it renders truth into something stagnant and lifeless. For the Christian fundamentalist, God becomes something that can be understood in the mind- a conceptual idol.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodity is taken for granted. The government, flush with wealth, is expected to be generous. When the price of that commodity drops, a government which would remain in power dare not cut back on this generosity.