Idolatrous Motivations

The deep question of motivation is not "What is motivating me?" The final question is, "Who is the master of this pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior?" In the biblical view, we are religious, inevitably bound to one god or another. People do not have needs. We have masters, lords, gods, be they oneself, other people, valued objects, Satan.

--David Powlison, "Idols of the Heart and 'Vanity Fair,'" Journal of Biblical Counseling 13:2 (Winter 1995), 39.