Culture Quote by Mike Yaconelli

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

— Oscar Wilde

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life?…

— George Eliot

Too much shine, can dull the soul

— Big K.R.I.T

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

— Brandon Sanderson

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive…

— Walter Scott

“The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world without sentimental…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

— Ellen G. White

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a…

— Dan Kimball

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

— Matthew Arnold

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious…

— Lionel Trilling

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes…

— John O'Donohue

The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout…

— Rudolf Steiner