Robert Wuthnow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our preference for high-paying jobs, but it also alters our capacity to pray, the nature of our prayers, and the ways in which religious tutelage instructs our values.
-- Robert Wuthnow

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Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, of where we search for meaning and transcendence, and of how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world.
-- Robert Wuthnow

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By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet would have seemed like the epitome of materialism in another time, but now provide the only means available for two-career couples to work hard enough at their jobs to earn the salaries they need to pay for those labor-saving amenities.
-- Robert Wuthnow

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The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.
-- Robert Wuthnow

#Hands #Class #Pressure
Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.
-- Robert Wuthnow

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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

Robert Wuthnow famous quotes

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