Culture Quotes - Page 4

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.

Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

Ultimately amorality is immorality.

As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.

How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just cultural differences? What if it’s all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.

We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the eyes of culture.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."

[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]

Your goodness must have some edge to it - else it is none.

Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.

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