Quotes about Society
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
— Andrew Johnson
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.
— Tim LaHaye
The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.
— Jerry Bridges
Regardless of how helpful an item or body of knowledge may be to society, if it does not have as its final purpose the glory of God, it remains defective.
— Jerry Bridges
But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints. In fact, we often indulge in what I call the "respectable" or "acceptable" sins without any sense of sin. Our
— Jerry Bridges
Perhaps we have become self-righteous about our Christian lives because we look at society around us and see flagrant immorality, pervasive dishonesty, wholesale greed, and increasing violence. We see growing acceptance of abortion as a "right" and homosexuality as an acceptable alternate lifestyle. Because we are not guilty of these more gross forms of sin, we can begin to feel rather good about our Christian lives.
— Jerry Bridges
In the West, especially, we don't often consciously feel the actions of government impacting our lives from day to day.
— Jerry Bridges
We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.
— Jerry Bridges
But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.
— Jerry Bridges
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
— Jerry Falwell
There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
— Jerry Falwell