Nancy Pearcey Quotes

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.

If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?