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Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. Charles Spurgeon

Man Peace Revenge Pride Thought Contentment Ambition Lust Too Humility Exalted Unworthy Idolatry Gods Often While Holiness Viewed Serious

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II

Religion Science Purify Superstition Absolutes Idolatry False Error

What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party. Tony Campolo

Political Party Our Neither Marry Sin Democrat Making Idolatry Nor Affirm Political Party Committing Whenever Republican Image Jesus Need

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. John Calvin

God Man Mind Will Own Some Superstition He Like Idol Idolatry His Brain Forge Store Forsake Much Certain Believes

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

Good Idolatry Idols Anyone Really Even

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. Sharron Angle

Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives. Anand Giridharadas

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. Ann Oakley

Duty Nothing Other Idolatry Families Than

Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images. Horace Walpole

Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with its technocratic and technological determinism and market idolatry, had thirty years. And now it, too, is dead. John Ralston Saul

Depression You Own Lasted Thirty Too Add Market Our Rigid Postwar Determinism More Had Dead Globalization Idolatry Years Version Form Flexible Forty-Five Now Technological Muscular

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. John Selden

Man Thought Own Another Opinion Idolatry

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. Lionel Blue

Religion Saw Open Idolatry Cracked Repression Again Stalinism Early

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye

Service Religion Culture Understanding Approach Worship Destroy Object Tendency Idolatry Intellectual Replace Essential Forms Present

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. Orson Pratt

Christianity System Invented Absurdity Idolatry Heard Modern Anything Far Ever

If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry. Ross Douthat

God You Too Assuming Purposes Toward Idolatry America Confident Tiptoe

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