234 Quotes About Idolatry

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

Adams was in a hurry and ordered his horse drawn carriage to wait for him in front of his house. The horses were spooked before he got in the carriage, and the carriage was destroyed in an accident. Pondering what could have happened to him , Adams retreated to Psalm 20's injunctions against trusting in chariots and horses.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.

Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.

Jealousy from a love affair is something (to which) even God can admit.

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.