You become what you worship

This brings us to the first of two golden rules at the heart of spirituality. You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship. Those who worship money become, eventually, human calculating machines.Those who worship sex become obsessed with their own attractiveness or prowess.Those who worship power become more and more ruthless.—N. T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense, 148 (emphasis original)