Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
– Stanley Hauerwas
Related Quotes:
- Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God. – Trevor D Richardson
- In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept. – Thomas Daniel Nehrer
- I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – Idries Shah
- Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. – Criss Jami
- If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. – Tullian Tchividjian
- You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others. – Stanley Hauerwas
- The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture. – Stanley Hauerwas
- Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had. – Stanley Hauerwas
- Brennan’s inner jaguar roared to life then with the need to protect this woman- protect my mate, must protect my mate it snarled. – Zoe Chant
- The Sun can rise anytime in your dreams. And there night may fall anytime as well. – Munia Khan
- When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God! – Raphael Ben Levi
- I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God’s name is truth. – Philip Novak
- What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol. – Peter Rollins
- As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. – AW Tozer
- Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason. – Jonathan Haidt
- If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- A worshipping Church or a prayer group is a magnet that draws the Lord and His people to connect with each other! – Gangai Victor
- Where am I?- you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it. – JD Greear
- If you knew that your time is your life, you would protect it as much as you protect your life. – Sunday Adelaja
- Some of us cover to protect our bodiessome of us cover to protect our soulsin both cases,respect their choices. – Anjum Choudhary
- You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come. – Jack Thorne
- If a person cannot protect you, it is because you were meant to perfect them.If they cannot perfect you, you are meant to protect them. – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- We need to protect and care for our children because when society fails to protect its children, there will be no one else to learn from. – Gift Gugu Mona
- He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them. – Andrew Galasetti
- Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people. – Anthony Sloan
- When you keep a secret from your parents, you’re not trying to protect yourself. It’s because you’re trying to protect them. – Judy Balan
- Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states. – Monks of New Skete
- If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol. – Joel Osteen
- Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don’t aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. – Ron Pearce
- Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper – Sunday Adelaja
- God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- When people tell you that you are good for nothing, remember that God made the world from nothing and nothing can change into something anytime. – Luffina Lourduraj
- Prayer allows you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on. – Elizabeth George
- Prayer enables you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on. – Elizabeth George
- Anytime you testify you have some amount of increase or the other, God does not want you to get satisfied – Sunday Adelaja
- Money can be replaced anytime, but lost time can never be reclaimed. – Ravinder Tulsiani
- God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God. – Matt Chandler