Quotes about Culture

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

The mainstream consumed our culture.

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.

In most red states, country music is a major way of life.

Gauchos are like cowboys in the United States.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Jesus is supracultural. He is present within all cultures, and yet outside of all cultures. He is for all people, and yet he refuses to be co-opted or owned by any one culture. That includes any Christian culture. Any denomination. Any church. Any theological system. We can point to him, name him, follow him, discuss him, honor him, and believe in him—but we cannot claim him to be ours any more than he's anyone else's.