Quotes about Norms

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

The church's ... certainty is bound to certain norms and ... a feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty ... it is not the certainty, but the truth in the certainty that makes us free ... there is a way of understanding Holy Scripture that does not estrange us from the gospel.

I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked 'what if He really meant it?' it could turn the world upside down. It is a shame christians have become so normal.

Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

I did not yet know that my lack of enjoyment - my distaste, my suffering even - would be considered normal and even desirable by my husband. He was one of those men who felt that if a woman did not experience sexual pleasure this was all to the good, because then she would not be liable to wander off seeking it elsewhere.

The status quo doesn't shift because you're right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.