What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
Men to whom God is dead worship one another.
The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
This is the reason, then, why Christians are counted public enemies: that they pay no vain, nor false, nor foolish honors to the emperor
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping God, are worshiping a God they don't know. They're worshiping a god that looks more like Santa Claus than the God of Scripture. They're worshiping a god that is a figment of their own imagination. They created a god in their own likeness and they worship the god they've made.
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.
Luther’s attitude toward the Catholic mass was the main reason the Protestant churches abolished the mass.
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.