QUOTATION: The Idols of Our Day

Big government, big business, big labor, big education, big entertainment, big media and too often even big religion worship the same idols.

--Robert P. George

QUOTATION: Statism

There is now a false idealism of turning government into God by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody.

--G.K. Chesterton

QUOTATION: Idolatry

Those who believe more in their own pleasures than in the precepts of God, worship themselves as gods.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: Idolatry is the Opposite of Faith

The history of Israel also shows us the temptation of unbelief to which the people yielded more than once. Here the opposite of faith is shown to be idolatry. While Moses is speaking to God on Sinai, the people cannot bear the mystery of God’s hiddenness, they cannot endure the time of waiting to see his face. Faith by its very nature demands renouncing the immediate possession which sight would appear to offer; it is an invitation to turn to the source of the light, while respecting the mystery of a countenance which will unveil itself personally in its own good time

--Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei

QUOTATION: Idolatry

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

--G.K. Chesterton

QUOTATION: Idolatry

Idols always break the hearts of their worshipers.

--C.S. Lewis