Quotes about Culture

There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees.

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

Prayer is subversive activity. It involves a more or less open act of defiance against any claim by the current regime.... [As we pray,] slowly but surely, not culture, not family, not government, not job, not even the tyrannous self can stand against the quiet power and creative influence of God's sovereignty.

Spirituality means, among other things, taking ourselves seriously. It means going against the cultural stream in which we are incessantly trivialized to the menial status of producers and performers, constantly depersonalized behind the labels of our degrees or our salaries.