Quotes About Culture

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

Only a true faith that applies God's Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Scripture is something God had 'let be,' and so it is at once God's creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.

They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.