Quotes About Modern

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

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

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

We live in a different era now. And thank God for that.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

It's such an old-fashioned attitude to make people feel like they're not good enough for your clothes. That's so negative and so old-fashioned and wrong.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.