“Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.”

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.

It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

No matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It’s a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.

And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.