Quotes about Cultural shift

When eighteenth-century British society had retreated from the historical Christianity it had earlier embraced, the Christian character of the nation—which had given Britain, among other things, a proud tradition of almshouses to help the poor, dating all the way back to the tenth century—had all but disappeared.

A secular worldview hostile to biblical values has overrun our culture and permeated our government.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.

How has God faded out of the mind of this age? Well, the age, like thoughtless children, believed that the toyland of material wealth was a sufficient world; then God faded out, smothered by preoccupation.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.