“Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.” WorldCultureJesusWealthQualityModernThis WorldHonorSkillsAchievementRewardsArtisticWinnerLoserImpressAthleticModern Culture Author:Philip Yancey
“This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.” WorldHumansHas BeensIdeasPastOrderCultureCommunityQualityProgressThis WorldChangedReturnNotionNew WorldUnitsSociety And Culture Book:Uncommon Sense Source: Uncommon Sense
“There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.” WorldFeelsHas BeensHomeChristianCultureThis WorldTestamentNew Testament Author:Vance Havner
“In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.” WorldCultureStudyThis WorldAll ThingsOur RelationshipOther Cultures Author:Eustace Conway
“Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.” WorldSelfCultureThis WorldDisciplineBlessedExcellenceLeavingDuesDedicationQuestsSelf DisciplineBetter Place Author:Nonie Darwish
“I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.” IfsKnowsWorldLittlesReasonCultureActorsClassMiddleThis WorldBuildingScientistPhysicsMiddle ClassPocketsTransitionPhysiciansExploringBuilderUpper Middle Class Author:Matt Smith
“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.” MenWorldLongHas BeensCultureGivenWhiteThis WorldCivilizationConsequenceAccountsSpreadWidePsychologicalInevitableProportionMassiveProtectedMaterialisticUniversalityDiffusion Author:Ruth Benedict
“People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindImportantChoicesCultureNationsThis WorldCorporateRobotsFreedom Of ChoiceCorporate Culture Author:Jeanette Winterson