Quotes about Culture

In that thoroughly evil and violent and depraved culture, there was no hope for those children. This nation was so polluted that it as like gangrene that was taking over a person's leg, and God had to amputate the leg or the gangrene would spread and there wouldn't be anything left. In a sense, God's action was an act of mercy.

If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

The Christianization of the modern world is leading to the modernization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus. Similarly, as we shall see, the Christianization of America has led to the Americanization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

As followers of Jesus, we must not duck the enormity of a simple but shattering fact: with relatively few exceptions, such as some branches of Buddhism, almost all the most militantly secularist societies in history have been the product of Christian societies. The church is a leading spawning ground for atheists.

Under the impact of the modern world, there has been a definite melting down of the assurance of faith. Secularization makes the Christian faith seem less real, privatization makes it seem merely a private preference, and pluralization makes it seem just one among many.

When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality