Sentences with phrase «becomes idolatry»

If we are in the other 30 %, we must recognize that anything that falls short of practicing the one anothers of Scripture quickly becomes idolatry and that we forfeit the grace from God we could have.

Technology as a total way of life becomes idolatry, that is, ultimate allegiance to something less than God.

Strategy becomes idolatry, for ancient Israel and for us today, when we make alliances with those who seem to offer strength — the chariots of Egypt, the vassal kings of Rome — at the expense of our dependence on God who judges all nations, and in defiance of God's manifest concern for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed.

Strategy becomes idolatry when we betray our deepest values in pursuit of earthly influence.

Apart from faith religion becomes idolatry.

It becomes idolatry when we look to just one aspect of God: we worship a god who always promises success in war; a god who always promises success in agriculture; a god who always promises success in fertility; a god who always promises success with money.

Just as human reason may become a whore, so the mythological expression of the truth may become idolatry, and both may lead to the rejection of Christ.

Not exact matches

When we function in false self, it becomes compulsion, striving, self sufficiency and idolatry — i think the process of deconstructing is more in essence of coming back to our first love in HIM - before it got all complicated....

But if we build a booth to them, erect a frame around them and enshrine them, we can end up worshiping those moments or memories or persons to the extent that they become a hindrance, a stumbling block or even idolatry — rather than unmerited gift from God and resource for service to others.

Where this happens, the means has become the end in a kind of perverse idolatry.

When anything or anybody else becomes supreme, idolatry has corrupted its nature and distorted its function.

That God can liberate me from my idolatries is, indeed, one of the ways in which I may become aware of his gracious presence.

Some years ago, University of Chicago ethicist James Gustafson pointed to the possibility that our congregations might become «communities of moral discourse» where proponents of laissez - faire economics would encounter advocates of the welfare state in earnest conversation and study, thereby checking the idolatry of both extremes.

Not only in texts but also on buildings the elaboration of the visible word became a major art form, especially as representation of the human figure was not allowed lest it lead to idolatry.

We can never collude when such idolatry becomes manifest, especially when it demands our public allegiance.

But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own form of idolatry — an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor of the causes we support.

We need to remember that our reaction against such idolatry, even in our religious duty, can also become just as legalistic.

On the basis of this initial idolatry it develops a morality in which economic worth becomes the standard by which to measure all other values and the economic virtues take precedence over courage, temperance, wisdom and justice, over charity, humility and fidelity.

When various forms of idolatry became part of their effort to influence the world, they were merely trying to tie all things together, to make sense out of a world that often proved hostile to human feelings.

But the products which come from the altars of this modern idolatry — the dividends, the privileges, the status, the struggle — are of such a sort that it is difficult to partake of them without becoming involved in the whole system of misplaced faith and perverted morality.

The church allied with the civilization in which this idolatry prevails has become entangled not only in its culture but also in its worldliness.

When, in its sense of rejection, it is preoccupied with these temporal matters it is the world of idolatry and becomes foe of the Church.

The use of idols at no time completely ceased, at least in pre-exilic Israel; also, it became obvious that graven images were only the symptom of the disease of idolatry — i.e., the worship of the creature instead of the creator.

Islam began when Muhammad became sensitive to the dehumanizing implications of the idolatry of popular religious practice.

The Bible, the church, Jesus Christ and God have all lost their absoluteness in modern times, and the attempt of the guardians of Christian orthodoxy to restore any of them to the pillars from which they have fallen becomes only a new form of idolatry.

My sake and Christ's sake have become identical, and that is nothing less than self - idolatry.

The secularist who regards secularization as a matter of winning complete emancipation from the old heritage, is in fact turning secularism into an absolute, and without realizing it, he is in danger of becoming enslaved to a new form of idolatry.

But when religious communities themselves sell out to these idolatries, they become part of the problem rather than the solution.

Fuelled by the desire to see his face, our fathers in the faith became progressively purified of the perennial threats to faith of heresy and idolatry.

But it seems like modeling is only healthy to a degree, beyond which it becomes (variously) idolatry, trusting in one's understanding, respecting a collection of static images rather than living spirit «not made by hands,» and so on.

That is, has human thinking, judging and willing become so egregiously impaired by our idolatry of the artificially designed, manmade «economic colossus» casting a giant shadow over the Earth, that we can not speak intelligibly about anything else except economic growth and profits without sounding like blithering idiots?