CULTURE
Time impairs all things, the fashion becomes obsolete and passes away. TD102:26
How many of you look around on society to know what to do; you watch the general
current, and then float upon it; you study the popular breeze and shift your sails to
suit it. True men do not so. You ask—Is it fashionable? If it be fashionable, it must be
done. Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the common
consent of fools. The world has its fashions in religion as well as in dress, and many
of you feel the influence of it. 1229.220
To be abreast of the times is to be an enemy of God. 1749.618
There is toleration for everybody who conforms to the fashion of the day; but no
toleration for anyone who believes that the laws of heaven should regulate life on
earth. 2859.567
Any kind of fashion, which may rule the hour, draws a mad crowd after it. No matter
how absurd or ridiculous the mania, the worshippers of fashion cry, “These be thy
gods, O Israel.” Yes, Satan is marvellously well obeyed by his servants. 3021.20