Pope Francis Quotes

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

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

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

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.

The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.

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

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

You can't worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

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

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

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

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