Quotes about Society

The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

Regardless of how helpful an item or body of knowledge may be to society, if it does not have as its final purpose the glory of God, it remains defective.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints. In fact, we often indulge in what I call the "respectable" or "acceptable" sins without any sense of sin. Our

Perhaps we have become self-righteous about our Christian lives because we look at society around us and see flagrant immorality, pervasive dishonesty, wholesale greed, and increasing violence. We see growing acceptance of abortion as a "right" and homosexuality as an acceptable alternate lifestyle. Because we are not guilty of these more gross forms of sin, we can begin to feel rather good about our Christian lives.

In the West, especially, we don't often consciously feel the actions of government impacting our lives from day to day.

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.