idolatry

He fetishized limits.

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand__n England at any rate.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

Shopkeepers __he great landed and commercial interests__egularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.

If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.

He wants you for parts.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodity is taken for granted. The government, flush with wealth, is expected to be generous. When the price of that commodity drops, a government which would remain in power dare not cut back on this generosity.

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is_cheap.

We view God as a resource that will broker all my cheap desires.

Not even generals can stop the rain.

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.

A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.

We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.

Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.