Quotes about Culture

It is one thing to create a countercultural community or a Christian subculture, but it is a much more difficult thing to live as an incarnational-missional communitas in the midst of a culture and not be bound by its dictates and decrees: to be in it, not of it, but not out of it either.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.

Italy will always have the best food.

God does not exercise an alien domination of the world but a liberating lordship that sets creation free; God's rule lets family, culture, government, and church fulfill their created purposes, both distinct from and related to one another, and without any usurped heteronomy of one over the other.

Every attempt to save the West that excludes one of the Western peoples [Völker] is condemned to failure.

The only thing I am really clear about in the whole problem is that a 'culture' that breaks down in the face of danger is no culture.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

Many Christians have what we might call a "cultural holiness". They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them. As the Christian culture around them is more or less holy, so these Christians are more or less holy. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.