{"quotes":[{"text":"You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.","author":"The Skit Guys","tags":["discipleship","idolatry"],"id":249,"author_id":"The+Skit+Guys"},{"text":"The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.","author":"Barbara W. Tuchman","tags":["and-stewardship","dominion","idolatry","leadership","ministry","paternalism"],"id":2410,"author_id":"Barbara+W.+Tuchman"},{"text":"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by 'solving' it without addressing it.","author":"Sherry Turkle","tags":["culture","distraction","idolatry"],"id":2933,"author_id":"Sherry+Turkle"},{"text":"Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all prophets. Didn't the prophets tell us to be like them? That's what's wrong with Christianity. They make Jesus and the prophets into icons, take them off of earth, and put them in heaven to worship them, so they're no longer accessible. You've taken a reality and made it into a worthless idol. Christians talk about the idolatry of other religions, but when they no longer live principles and just worship the people who taught them, that's exactly what they're doing.","author":"Daniel Suelo","tags":["2012","american-christianity","asceticism","christian-nation","do-as-god-would-do","hypocrisy","idolatry","poverty"],"id":3302,"author_id":"Daniel+Suelo"},{"text":"To the extent that we are trapped by the overvaluing, idealizing tendency, we are not free fully to celebrate the limited but real goods of creation. Idolatry by definition is not an accurate assessment of creaturely goods, but an overvaluing of them so as to miss the richness of their actual, limited values. If I worship my tennis trophies, my Mondrian, my family tree, my Kawasaki, or my bank account, then I do not really receive those goods for what they actually are - limited, historical, and finite - goods which are vulnerable to being taken away by time and death. When I pretend that a value is something more than it is, ironically I value it less appropriately than it deserves. Biblical psychology invites us to relate ourselves absolutely to the absolute and relatively to the relative.","author":"Thomas C. Oden","tags":["biblical-psychology","idolatry","reality","values"],"id":5117,"author_id":"Thomas+C.+Oden"},{"text":"Not even generals can stop the rain.","author":"Jeff Shaara","tags":["idolatry","influence","sovereignty-of-god"],"id":7163,"author_id":"Jeff+Shaara"},{"text":"For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.","author":"Jonathan Darman","tags":["addiction","appetite","flesh","idolatry"],"id":7900,"author_id":"Jonathan+Darman"},{"text":"Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["devotional","discipleship","idolatry","intimacy-with-god","materialism","worship"],"id":9366,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: 'It would kill him if he relaxed.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["idolatry","job","leisure","relaxation","vocation"],"id":15351,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.","author":"Stephen L. Carter","tags":["comparison","humility","idolatry","pride"],"id":17401,"author_id":"Stephen+L.+Carter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":173,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}