Cultural Christianity Quotes

#1. The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.

Russell D. Moore

#2. The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen ... In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?

Allen Ginsberg

#3. Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.

Mila Kunis

#4. America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Stanley Hauerwas

#5. The call to "take the land" ... is not a call to a new political, cultural or geographical dominance. It is Kingdom of God territory. It is the will of the Eternal God being done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Ken Baker

#6. Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

James Small

#7. If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#8. The cultural capital American Christianity has amassed simply cannot be leveraged where it matters most.

James Davison Hunter

#9. Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

Nancy Pearcey

#10. Most beautiful, good things are done by women people scorn.

Gillian Flynn

#11. But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

Alan Hirsch

#12. There is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

Francis Chan

#13. If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.

Ellen DeGeneres

#14. Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

Francis Schaeffer

#15. To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.

Gary North

#16. Look at this," Henry called from a few yards away. His voice was theatrically shocked. "I have discovered that, at some point, this side door was broken into by a teenage Korean vandal.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic.
Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.

Scott Cunningham

#18. Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Vladimir Putin

#19. Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character.

Ravi Zacharias

#20. Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

Charles Spurgeon

#21. Seek those who help you hear your own heart.

Yasmin Mogahed

#22. Oh, America! I could never leave you! You're like my dog, dumb as a post but you make me laugh!

Bill Maher

#23. Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

Mike Leigh

#24. If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.

Andy Crouch

#25. The Christian worldview, contra-postmodernism, understands language not as a Self-referential, merely human and ultimately arbitrary system of signs that is reducible to contingent cultural factors, but it has the gift of a rational God entrusted to beings made in his own image and likeness.

Douglas Groothuis

#26. Christianity is facing something of an identity crisis. Who are we to be to the twenty-first-century world? How should the church position itself in the postmodern culture? Through what cultural languages will the gospel be best communicated in this turbulent time?

Brett McCracken

#27. How often
today might Christians think they stand for "true" Christianity when what they stand for is a secular tradition-what cultural critic Raymond Williams would call a "selective tradition" (chapter five)-that has little to do with the kingdom of God?

Crystal L. Downing

#28. Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do.

Diana Butler Bass

#29. Prayers offered in faith and then followed by songs of thanksgiving, praise and worship are an expression of our faith and love for God. Joy results when you have faith in the greatness of God and his power to deliver and save you and others from adverse circumstances and enemies.

James Strand

#30. I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.

Slash

#31. Knowing how to yield is strength

Lao-Tzu

#32. I continued to find myself in a constant process of attempting to deconstruct values that were cultural and replace them with the legitimate teachings of Jesus - no matter how crazy that made me look to the world or Christians around me.

Benjamin L. Corey