Dallas Willard Quotes

The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have studied its ways and adapted ourselves to it. We are relevant when we reject the world outright and are its polar opposite! This present darkness provides a great opportunity for the church to be the salt of the earth, but if we mix with the very impurities we are supposed to expose... we are as useless as our culture already believes us to be.

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

Anytime you can be a part of something that hopefully tries to make a cultural contribution, I love the idea of that.

I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.

We owe it to our children to defend our Christian culture.

I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody who wants to make sure that the culture we're getting is at least morally aware of how it's functioning.

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

We want young people to get every opportunity to experience culture, to understand it and to think it is for them.

We really owe it to our world to infuse our entertainment with messaging.

Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what's going on culturally.

People like me in the entertainment industry can contribute to social change through our work.

Trump errs on the side of bluster sometimes for effect, but I don't think that the people who voted for him, most of them, would ever be for not caring for immigrants or refugees. People in the church know it's our obligation.

In cities across the world, directors of leading arts institutions, galleries and museums know that when it comes to attracting locals to their major exhibitions and shows, weekdays tend to be 'cultural dead time' for working people, who are simply too busy to enjoy what their city has to offer.

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

My faith sometimes burdens me with the responsibility to think very deeply and long and hard about the choices I make creatively. There are projects I turn down because the material is too much a violation of what I believe. But that's true of anybody.

President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of conservatives to speak freely.

State of the Culture' is more mature content. We want to go as deep as we can on whatever the subject matter is, we're not there to joke.

Wokeness, for what it's worth, is a buzzword that a lot of people are not truly understanding the depth of. I think sometimes things work their way into the zeitgeist, and they lose their weight. And wokeness is one of those words that has reached that point.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ.

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.