Quotes about Culture
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
— Nancy Pearcey
As long as Christianity is treated as "moral poetry" and "tales of consolation," it poses no threat to the sovereignty of secularism.
— Nancy Pearcey
In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.
— Nancy Pearcey
The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
— Nancy Pearcey
if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.
— Nancy Pearcey
Lecrae's message is that we do not need to be afraid of cultural differences because Christianity has the resources to speak to every culture.
— Nancy Pearcey
Long before pragmatism was developed into a full-blown American philosophy (see chapter 8), it had already been formulated and practiced by evangelical leaders.
— Nancy Pearcey
Artists are often the barometers of society.
— Nancy Pearcey
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.
— Nelson Mandela
if you talk to a man in a second language , your talking to his brain ,if you talk to him in his mother language you're talking to his heart -
— Nelson Mandela
We may borrow… from foreign ideologies, but we reject the wholesale importation of foreign ideologies into Africa.
— Nelson Mandela
I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.
— Nikki Giovanni