Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Presenting a spiritual image can mask worship of idols like religiosity and philosophy.
In plain terms
You might look spiritual but actually worship ideas and religious appearances instead.
What can you take from it?
Watch out for worshipping religious ideas instead of true spirituality.

Where it applies

  • religious performance
  • spiritual identity

Putting it to work

  • identify hidden idols
  • focus on substance

Questions to consider

  • What idols do you bow to?
  • Are you spiritual or just religious?

Another view

It risks dismissing valuable philosophy and religious tradition.

More from Don Miller

  1. I realized in and instant that I desired false gods because Jesus wouldn't jump through my hoops, and I realized that, like Tony, my faith was about image and …

    Permalink to quote #64
  2. I feel like I am constantly saying things I don't mean. I tell people they should share their faith, but I don't feel like sharing my faith. i tell people that…

    Permalink to quote #66
  3. Your problem is not that God is not fulfulling, your problem is that you are spoiled.

    Permalink to quote #63

Related quotes

  1. Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen …

    Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale quote #1
  2. In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual clai…

    Alfred North WhiteheadAlfred North Whitehead quote #1
  3. Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship…

    Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda quote #1