Quotes about Modern

My BlackBerry is essential to my survival.

Perhaps there is no better illustration of the ethical impotency of the modern church than its failure to deal with the evils and ethical problems of stock manipulation. Millions in property values are created by pure legerdemain. Stock dividends, watered stock and excessive rise in stock values, due to the productivity of the modern machine, are accepted by the church without murmur if only a slight return is made by the beneficiaries through church philanthropies [1927].

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

Western people are a ritually starved people, and in this are different than most of human history.

The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.

Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

Dallas was not a caring city, but it was efficient.

The heirloom biblical wheat of our ancestors is something modern humans never eat.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

No matter how liberal or modern a family is, there will always be resistance when someone discloses that they are dating someone.