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Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
All idolatry tries to minimize the gulf between the Creator and his creatures, in order to bring him under our control.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
Enjoy all things for God by using all for Him. Those riches, honors, interests, and friends which are clogs upon the heels of others, let them be as springs to you to raise you heavenward. Let your souls be winged with those very enjoyments wherewith the wings of others are pinioned, and that which is fuel to their worldly lusts, let it be as fuel to feed and nourish your spiritual love. To use what we have for God is the only way not to abuse it; this is one way of enjoying all for God, to use all for Him.
All images and idols are set up for no other end but to feign the presence of what really is absent.
It is highly reasonable that we begin now to be that which we expect to be forever, to learn that way of living in which we hope to live to all eternity.
As we cannot live a moment out of God, so neither ought we to live a moment without God in the world. We ought continually to endeavor to walk in subservience to and converse with God; yea, and as far as may be, in a feeling converse with Him too.
have not other things a stronger influence into our actions then God, we will doe more for them then him; A Glimpse of God\'s Glory
there is nothing so mean that a carnal heart will not Idolize, and advance in affection above the HighestA Glimpse of God\'s Glory
Nothing, indeed, can be more preposterous than to enjoy those noble endowments which bespeak the divine presence within us and to neglect him who, of his own good pleasure, bestows them upon us.Institutes, Book 1 Chapter 6
We should not think that one culture is less idolatrous than the next. Traditional societies tend to make the family unit and the clan into an absolute, ultimate thing. This can lead to honor killings, the treatment of women as chattel, and violence toward gay people. Western, secular cultures make an idol out of individual freedom, and this leads to the breakdown of the family, rampant materialism, careerism, and the idolization of romantic love, physical beauty, and profit.Counterfeit Gods (130)
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