234 Quotes About Idolatry

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.He who loves corruption rots.He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.

What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.

Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power.

He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.

The saints are in heaven, not in wood.—De morbis ex incantationibus et impressionibus

The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.