Tamora Pierce Quotes

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

Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping God, are worshiping a God they don't know. They're worshiping a god that looks more like Santa Claus than the God of Scripture. They're worshiping a god that is a figment of their own imagination. They created a god in their own likeness and they worship the god they've made.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

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.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.

Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

That king who through folly rashly oppresses his kingdom, (will), together with his relatives, ere long be deprived of his life and of his kingdom. As the lives of living creatures are destroyed by tormenting their bodies, even so the lives of kings are destroyed by their oppressing their kingdoms

For every folly of the princes, the Greek people suffer. Quidquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi.

… the imaginations of men are exceedingly prone to deify and worship them [kings]; though, to the great misfortune of mankind, they are more commonly fiends, than angels.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.