Quotes About Modern

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

Hundreds of philosophies and scores of religions have been invented to circumvent the Word of God. Modern philosophers and psychologists are still trying to make it appear that there is some way out other than the path of Jesus.

Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living.

New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

The world I once knew as a boy has changed dramatically . . . I don't even recognize the world we live in today.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

We want to be relevant . . . However, the more relevant we become to a sin-dominated world, the more irrelevant we actually are to God.

Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man.

Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and he has substituted gods of his own making. In actuality modern man has decided to dethrone God and enthrone himself in all of his nuclear glory.

The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning's newspaper.

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present—we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

I believe that one of the reasons for crime, perversion, and the evils of modern mankind is that we have lost belief in the certainty of God being just, holy, and righteous, and that He will judge the world.

A century ago man's chief concern was his spiritual life; today his chief concern is with his physical and temporal affairs.

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength.

Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which he takes pains to create, this monotony which is slowly taking over the world, this monotony is the sign of our greatness. It bears the mark of a certain will-power, the will to utility; it is the expression of utility, a law that governs all our modern activity: the Law of Utility.

Dating across the color line was just another way of bucking convention. But since my father neither looked nor identified as black, there wasn't much risk of public censure. The women could be daring and modern without being truly radical.

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

This new age is melting you all down, because it's not the measles you've come down with, it's the epoch.

Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining them we both account for and implicitly justify present realities.

a primitive, inner warning trill that you cannot quite explain. Modern man, more afraid of embarrassment sometimes than safety, often ignores it at his own peril. Melon

The high school had been built in the seventies and reeked of it. What had been considered sleek and modern had weathered like an old sci-fi movie set, like Logan's Run or something. The building was gray with fading aqua trim. It was the edificial equivalent of Cheez Whiz or a hockey player's mullet. There