Definition of Idolatry

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Definition of Idolatry
	Idolatry The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods. Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration. Related Definitions: Adoration, Anything, Attachment, Excessive, False, For, God, Is, Love, Not, Of, On, Or, Respect, The, Veneration, Which, Worship

Idolatry Quotations

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Meryl Streep

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Ann Oakley

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Lionel Blue

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John Selden

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Trevor Nunn

Idolatry Translations

idolatry in Dutch is afgoderij, afgodendienst
idolatry in Swedish is avgudadyrkan, avguderi

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