Sentences with phrase «idolatrous love»

Any love more important than God's love can become an idolatrous love.

Mr. Davenport was pacing about, exhorting his followers to sacrifice their idolatrous love for worldly things.

An idolatrous love of family is often behind the lack of courage in many Christians to speak out against abuse and unethical practices in the workplace.

Not exact matches

Any love can become idolatrous.

We could love America — feel toward it all that respect, pride, and affection that it is natural for people to extend to their homelands — without being tempted to the idolatrous nationalism that has deformed modern history.

Although man and woman were intended to delight in sexual union with each other, any love can become excessive or idolatrous.

This is their capacity to mask idolatrous or self - centred love under the form of universal benevolence.

As I studied these passages, another question arose I was almost afraid to even ask: Was it even possible that these passages were condemning issues of the day like idolatrous orgies and temple prostitution, and not loving, Christ - centered relationships at all?

Such emotional love can actually be idolatrous.