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“The church once changed society. It was then a thermostat of society. But today . . . the church is merely a thermometer, which measures rather than molds popular opinion.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Worldliness is not, in the last analysis, love of possessions, or the habit of courting great personages. It is simply the weakness of fiber which makes us take our standards from the society around us.”
~Ronald Knox
“It is time that the Christian reacquire the consciousness of belonging to a minority and of often being in opposition to what is obvious, plausible and natural for that mentality which the New Testament calls . . . the ‘spirit of the world.’ It is time to find again the courage of nonconformism, the capacity to oppose many of the trends of the surrounding culture.”
~Joseph Ratzinger
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Worldliness is not, in the last analysis, love of possessions, or the habit of courting great personages. It is simply the weakness of fiber which makes us take our standards from the society around us.”
~Ronald Knox
“It is time that the Christian reacquire the consciousness of belonging to a minority and of often being in opposition to what is obvious, plausible and natural for that mentality which the New Testament calls . . . the ‘spirit of the world.’ It is time to find again the courage of nonconformism, the capacity to oppose many of the trends of the surrounding culture.”
~Joseph Ratzinger
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