Spiritual Idolatry Quotes

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

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

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

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.

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

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 we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.