Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

“"Idolatry**
“All forms of idolatry involve us deeply in folly. All idolatry is not only treacherous but also futile. Human desire, deep and restless and seemingly unfulfillable, keeps stuffing itself with finite goods, but these cannot satisfy.

If we try to fill our hearts with anything besides the God of the universe, we find that we are overfed but undernourished, and we find that day by day, week by week, year after year, we are thinning down to a mere outline of a human being.”

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin

 
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