March 23, 2013

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  good quote...thanks, p.gary!

  "[An idol] is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.  A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living...secure.”… If anything in life becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning in life, and identity, then it is an idol.  An idol can be a physical object, a property, a person, an activity, a role, an institution, a hope, an image, an idea, a pleasure, a hero— anything that can substitute for God."

   

  Dennis Newkirk (2012-11-16). No gods but God: Confronting Our Modern-Day Idolatry (p. 17). CrossBooks. Kindle Edition.

   

   

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