Quotes for a Sunday

Nicolas Poussin - L'Adoration du Veau d'or

Those who believe in Christ do not walk in darkness. They know where they came from, where they are going and what they must do in the meantime,” he said. “But most of all, they know they are loved by one who, in order to demonstrate it, died on a cross.https://www.catholicsun.org/2021/03/12/jesus-wasnt-just-good-he-is-god-papal-preacher-says/

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. - Aldous Huxley

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them. - St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry. - Ross Douthat

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry. - Peter Kreeft

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place. - John Ruskin

Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth. - Pope Francis

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing so abominable in the eyes of God and of men as idolatry, whereby men render to the creature that honor which is due only to the Creator. - Blaise Pascal

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. - Exodus 20:3

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand). Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. - The Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 24:4-5, 15, 23-24

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