Quotes about Culture
It's a shame that so many churches are married to a designed-by-Christians-for-Christians-only culture. A culture in which they talk about the Great Commission, sing about the Great Commission, but refuse to reorganize their churches around the Great Commission.
— Andy Stanley
But I'm not sitting around praying for revival either. I grew up in the "pray for revival" culture.
— Andy Stanley
Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
— Joyce Meyer
I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.
— George Clooney
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.
— Jay-Z
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
— Julie Andrews
Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
— George Eliot
As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.
— Tony Evans
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
— Ravi Zacharias
says he 'welcomes sinners and eats with them.'14 Now, think about that. In his culture, to dine with someone meant to offer friendship. The word welcome in Greek means that he took great pleasure in them. Jesus doesn't delight in sin, but he liked being around these people, maybe because they were well aware of their depravity, unlike many of the religious folks who masked it with hypocrisy.
— Lee Strobel
Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.
— Leland Ryken