John Calvin Quotes

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.

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

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 opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

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

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

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

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.

God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

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

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.