D. A. Carson Quotes

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

People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

Even our pets can become idols.

In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders.

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.