Idolatry Quotes

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. - Bible

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry. - John Hagee

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right? - Emilio Estevez

'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god. - William Shakespeare

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;
Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;
Like Eden's dread probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. - William Cowper

The Koran doesn't make a direct quote saying that pictures are not allowed, but idolatry in not, and if a picture was painted of the prophet, or made of the prophet, then this would be a form of idolatry. - Aziz Junejo

The Catholic imagination is metaphorical or sacramental. It sees God as present in the world. The Protestant imagination, the dialectical imagination, wants to preserve God from the possibility of idolatry by identifying with His creatures. Catholicism has no problem with that. - Andrew Greeley

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. - George Bernard Shaw