"America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death."

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"America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death."

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"We do not actually know other cultures, we only know our judgements."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."

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"Inheritance and culture obscure people's higher capacities."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"A single recipe holds countless stories."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue (a beautiful blond princess); active women (dark, witches) usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about the women. They were about men, what men did, and what was important to men."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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Explore more quotes by John Piper

"The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for."

Devotion

"An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load."

Perspective

"Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!"

Food

"Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world."

Equality

"The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God."

Religion

"Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free."

Discipleship

"But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice."

Awe

"Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?"

Worship

"Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship."

Diligence

"Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ."

Suffering