Quotes about Culture

Now more than ever God's people must be committed to being gospel centered. Jesus can no longer be out there somewhere on the horizon as we look to culture, religion, politics, spirituality, or morality for our true north.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.

Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...

Know the spirit of the age and consciously resist conformity to it (Romans 12:2). As D. L. Moody said, "The ship belongs in the water of the world, but if the water gets in the ship, it sinks.

When you are the majority ethnicity, nothing you do is ethnic. It's just the way it's done. When you are a minority, everything you do has color.

If we could live a thousand years, and experience a thousand relationships in the thousand times and places and cultures, perhaps we wouldn't need books in order to (eventually) become wise. But our lives are short, and God has been merciful to give us many places, many times, many cultures, and many experiences distilled into books. Find the ones that strengthen your faith and make you want to live all-out for God.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.