idolatry

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")

It is also the irrational instinct of religionism, the vague yearning for something to worship__ reflection or shadow of the true devotional principle__hich prompts men to project a subjective image of the lower, personal mind, and to endow it with human attributes, and then to claim to receive "revelations" from it; and this__he image of the Beast, or unspiritual mind,__s their anthropomorphic God, a fabulous monster the worship of which has ever prompted men to fanaticism and persecution, and has inflicted untold misery and dread upon the masses of mankind, as well as physical torture and death in hideous forms upon the many martyrs who have refused to bend the knee to this Gorgonean phantom of the beast-mind of man. Truly, where the worshipers of this image of the Beast predominate, the man whose brow and hand are unbranded by this superstition, who neither thinks nor acts in accordance with it, suffers ostracism if not virulent persecution.

Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

Where do people...and why do people...have to wait, and what tends to happen when they do? So far, I have one observation to offer. It seems that waiting is a crucible. It tests us. It's when God's people have to wait that they get in trouble. The alternative to waiting for God is idolatry.

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn't been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a dirty room whose bookshelves were crammed with empty bourbon bottles and crucifixes, mute testimony to the limits of literature as a sustaining comfort in life.

We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.

While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.

Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.

What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.