Quotes about Society

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.

The experts in our society who offer to help us have a kind of general-staff mentality from which massive, top-down solutions are issued to solve our problems. Then when the solutions don't work, we get mired in the nothing-can-be-done swamp. We are first incited into being grandiose and then intimidated into being infantile. But there is another way, the plain way of quiet Christian humility.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

We have become a throwaway society. Instead of honoring and preserving our past, we tear it down, shove it aside, and just go on our merry way. Well, I won't have it. We have to stand firm for what we believe in. Only in the most dire circumstances should a structure of historical significance be demolished.

Culture gives opportunity. It does not take away the free will of the individual. That would be a violation of God's design.

God is looking for a generation that He can use as builders to bring about His intended purposes for cities and nations. This kind of transformation of society doesn't happen by us being on the outside. It happens from within.

Instead of shaping culture around us, we are all too often shaped by it.