Quotes about Culture

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

There are thousands of languages around the world, but love is the most beautiful of them all.

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.

Christians should see Muslims, who give ultimate allegiance to God as the supreme good, as allies in resisting the tendency in contemporary culture to see mere pleasure, rather than justice and love, as the hallmark of the good life.

I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?

This is a moment for believers to embody a gospel culture where both halves of the church are thriving because following Jesus produces a climate of honor, value, and love and we are serving God together as he intended from the beginning. This is a golden opportunity to restore to women the indestructible and elevated identity that they have inherited as God's daughters and that a fallen world has stolen from them.

but is in danger from the American evil of commercializing even the sacred festivals.

The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves--and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.

our material riches unfortunately imply a spiritual, cultural, and moral poverty that are perhaps far greater than we see.

I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.