Quotes about Culture
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
— John Owen
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.
— William Temple
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
— Elie Wiesel
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.
— Malcolm X
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.
— Rob Bell
Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement of God that is continuing forward in the culture around them . . . without their participation.
— Rob Bell
The ancient sages said the words of the sacred text were black letters on a white page—there's all that white space, waiting to be filled with our responses and discussions and debates and opinions and longings and desires and wisdom and insights. We read the words, and then enter into the discussion that has been going on for thousands of years across cultures and continents.
— Rob Bell
Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?
— Mike Huckabee
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
— John Wesley
Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages.
— Dennis Prager
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
— John Wesley
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson