idols

Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

Where am I?_ you ask. Where you are is where the things you__e denied worshipping have taken you.

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.

A god is anything that lives outside of God.

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

Keep yourselves from idols." The warning isn't given to them because it wasn't a real danger or because there was an off chance someone might fall into idolatry. It was given because this is our root problem on any given day. It is what we, especially as followers of Jesus, must fight against.

One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.

While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power.

Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.