Quotes about Culture

When I think of a hit, I think of Madonna.

So progressives have been working hard to come up with lies that can be passed off as facts. Progressives have a whole cultural contingent—Hollywood, the mainline media, the elite universities, even professional comedians—to peddle their propaganda. From the television show Madame Secretary to the front page of the New York Times to nightly quips by Stephen Colbert, the progressive bilge comes at us continually and relentlessly.

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.

I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled with outcasts.

Starbucks was delivering more value than just coffee; they were delivering a sense of sophistication and enthusiasm about life.

When you know how a nation deals with the Bible you may generally know what a nation is.

Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Here's the test—if you can't take your church culture and language and drop it in the middle of a bar or a bus, and have it make winsome sense to the people there, then it's not from Jesus. Because that is exactly what he could do. That's what made him the real deal.

As C. S. Lewis wrote, "A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other." This is where our sin and our culture have come together to keep us in bondage and brokenness, to prevent the healing of our wounds.

The spirit of our day is a soft acceptance of everything—except deep conviction in anything.

Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.