Quotes about Culture

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Nowadays many in America seem to regard "Christian" as synonymous with "fundamentalist," an error the media seems bent on perpetuating. The fact that Islam is generally treated with the same ignorance offers me no comfort.

As followers of Jesus, we must not duck the enormity of a simple but shattering fact: with relatively few exceptions, such as some branches of Buddhism, almost all the most militantly secularist societies in history have been the product of Christian societies. The church is a leading spawning ground for atheists.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs.

What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

The consequences of an ungrateful spirit are not as readily seen as, say, those of a contagious disease. But they are no less deadly. Western civilization has fallen prey to an epidemic of ingratitude. Like a poisonous vapor, this subtle sin is polluting our lives, our homes, our churches, and our culture.