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idolatry
«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»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Belief,
Mankind,
Men,
Mind,
Superstition
| Keywords:
forsake, idol, idolatries, idolatry
«Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.»
«Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: / For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: / In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
concupiscence, covetousness, fornication, idolatries, idolatry, inordinate, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, uncleanness, wrath
«For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.»
«Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, / Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, / Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
adultery, at variance, drunkenness, fornication, heresies, idolatry, inherit, lasciviousness, manifest, murders, strife, The Kingdom, The Works, uncleanness, variance, witchcraft, wrath
«Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare /never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
concern, cult, cults, Cult of the, excludes, form of worship, for one, hardly, idolatries, idolatrous, idolatry, incest, insanity, nationalism, One Country, patriotism, puts, The Cult, The Nation, welfare, worship
«Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
admirable, attribution, claims, hideous, idolatries, idolatry, monster, omnipotence, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, rationalism, recognition, sanctifies, sanctifying, stock, suppression, suppressions, The Admirable
«It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
any longer, handling, idolatry, instinctively, protects, unlike
«'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
idolatries, idolatry, The God, The Service