Quotes about Secular

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life. Votes: 6

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Votes: 6

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. Votes: 6

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. Votes: 6

Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us. Votes: 6

The road to the sacred leads through the secular. Votes: 4

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship. Votes: 4

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. Votes: 4

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith. Votes: 4

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. Votes: 4

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. Votes: 4

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men. Votes: 4

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. Votes: 4

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. Votes: 4

Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience. Votes: 4

Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told? Votes: 4

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! Votes: 4

If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect. Votes: 4

When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home. Votes: 4

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity. Votes: 4

Secular humanism debases the human. Votes: 3

Secular music was not allowed in our household. Votes: 3

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational. Votes: 3

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. Votes: 3

The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday. Votes: 3

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA. Votes: 3

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. Votes: 3

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth . Votes: 3

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. Votes: 3

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture. Votes: 3

The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny. Votes: 3

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy. Votes: 3

Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets. Votes: 3

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others. Votes: 3

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual. Votes: 3

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people. Votes: 3

Secular humanists should recognize those forms of religion as allies in the struggle for human advancement. They should also learn from them, as they try to build a fully secular world in which people can have the opportunity to live rich and fulfilling lives. Votes: 3

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular. Votes: 2

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. Votes: 2

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. Votes: 2

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all. Votes: 2

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. Votes: 2

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. Votes: 2

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. Votes: 2

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. Votes: 2

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. Votes: 2

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. Votes: 2

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. Votes: 2

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? Votes: 2

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split. Votes: 2

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. Votes: 2

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. Votes: 2

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. Votes: 2

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built. Votes: 2

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy. Votes: 2

India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth. Votes: 2

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn. Votes: 2

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. Votes: 2

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons. Votes: 2

The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods. Votes: 2

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History. Votes: 1

Iraq's always been very secular. Votes: 0

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular. Votes: 0

Politics in America is the binding secular religion. Votes: 0

We're a very religious country; the government's secular. Votes: 0

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. Votes: 0

My parents were secular. I am an atheist. Votes: 0

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image. Votes: 0

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart. Votes: 0

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time. Votes: 0

I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular. Votes: 0

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects. Votes: 0

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society? Votes: 0

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom." Votes: 0

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. Votes: 0

The public school has become the established church of secular society. Votes: 0

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' Votes: 0

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. Votes: 0

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly. Votes: 0

Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance. Votes: 0

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week. Votes: 0

Nepal will be a secular state - there is no other way. Votes: 0

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview." Votes: 0

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview. Votes: 0

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians. Votes: 0

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional Votes: 0

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely. Votes: 0

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics. Votes: 0

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood. Votes: 0

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper. Votes: 0

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. Votes: 0

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance. Votes: 0

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. Votes: 0

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. Votes: 0

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular. Votes: 0

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me. Votes: 0

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist. Votes: 0

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. Votes: 0

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy. Votes: 0

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments. Votes: 0

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. Votes: 0

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart. Votes: 0

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech. Votes: 0

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. Votes: 0

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations. Votes: 0

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. Votes: 0

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. Votes: 0

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for. Votes: 0

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world. Votes: 0

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices. Votes: 0

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences. Votes: 0

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head. Votes: 0

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head. Votes: 0

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion. Votes: 0

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam. Votes: 0

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically. Votes: 0

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. Votes: 0

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. Votes: 0

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith. Votes: 0

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History. Votes: 0

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded. Votes: 0

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church. Votes: 0

I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture. Votes: 0

The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society. Votes: 0

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. Votes: 0

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. Votes: 0

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption. Votes: 0

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position. Votes: 0

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach. Votes: 0

Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable. Votes: 0

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew. Votes: 0

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero. Votes: 0

Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use. Votes: 0

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving. Votes: 0

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. Votes: 0

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. Votes: 0

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent. Votes: 0

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic. Votes: 0

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. Votes: 0

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful. Votes: 0

We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be. Votes: 0

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron. Votes: 0

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us. Votes: 0

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine. Votes: 0

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Votes: 0

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. Votes: 0

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. Votes: 0

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head. Votes: 0

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. Votes: 0

And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt Votes: 0

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. Votes: 0

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. Votes: 0

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. Votes: 0

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. Votes: 0

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. Votes: 0

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. Votes: 0

Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection". Votes: 0

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded. Votes: 0

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. Votes: 0

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all? Votes: 0

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal. Votes: 0

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. Votes: 0

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home. Votes: 0

Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience. Votes: 0

If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth. Votes: 0

The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined. Votes: 0

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them. Votes: 0

The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study. Votes: 0

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about! Votes: 0

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. Votes: 0

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter. Votes: 0

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity. Votes: 0

Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching does no good. Votes: 0

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism Votes: 0

The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. Votes: 0

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues. Votes: 0

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. Votes: 0

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. Votes: 0

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional. Votes: 0

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction. Votes: 0

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. Votes: 0

The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem. Votes: 0

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. Votes: 0

Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic. Votes: 0

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember. Votes: 0

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. Votes: 0

Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical. Votes: 0

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus. Votes: 0

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. Votes: 0

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. Votes: 0

Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows its evolution. Votes: 0

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we? Votes: 0

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition. Votes: 0

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan. Votes: 0

We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart. Votes: 0

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. Votes: 0

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love. Votes: 0

The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity. Votes: 0

I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame. Votes: 0

American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. Votes: 0

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. Votes: 0

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position. Votes: 0

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity. Votes: 0

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions. Votes: 0

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference. Votes: 0

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . . Votes: 0

Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge. Votes: 0

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. Votes: 0

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning. Votes: 0

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever. Votes: 0

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. Votes: 0

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home. Votes: 0

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values. Votes: 0

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many. Votes: 0

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction. Votes: 0

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life." Votes: 0

India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes. Votes: 0

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value. Votes: 0

The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security. Votes: 0

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion. Votes: 0

Some Buddhists have criticized secular Buddhism because they think it waters down Buddhism. I like to think of it as adding Buddhist flavoring to the sparkling water of secularism. Votes: 0

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. Votes: 0

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil. Votes: 0

Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all. Votes: 0

I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts." Votes: 0

We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow. Votes: 0

Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters. Votes: 0

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular. Votes: 0

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful. Votes: 0

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal. Votes: 0

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. Votes: 0

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. Votes: 0

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role. Votes: 0

I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education. Votes: 0

One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership. Votes: 0

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. Votes: 0

How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top? Votes: 0

Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not? Votes: 0

I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a stand for Christ and being a blessing to believers. Votes: 0

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him. Votes: 0

When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran. Votes: 0

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. Votes: 0

The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom. Votes: 0

The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration. Votes: 0

She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots. Votes: 0

I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular. Votes: 0

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation. Votes: 0

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. Votes: 0

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it. Votes: 0

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person Votes: 0

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion Votes: 0

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular. Votes: 0

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago. Votes: 0

Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism. Votes: 0

I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house. Votes: 0

I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter. Votes: 0

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale. Votes: 0

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie. Votes: 0

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world. Votes: 0

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. Votes: 0

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland. Votes: 0

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards. Votes: 0

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists. Votes: 0

Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state. Votes: 0

A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall. Votes: 0

Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith ... Votes: 0

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Votes: 0

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. Votes: 0

The distinction between the religious and secular orders is a fundamental aspect of Christianity. This distinction is an innovation compared to Islam and Judaism, and it is an advantage that has helped shape Europe. Votes: 0

If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world. Votes: 0

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. Votes: 0

The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes. Votes: 0

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. Votes: 0

Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance. Votes: 0

The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research. Votes: 0

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God. Votes: 0

I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream 'secular' press has been very, very nice. Votes: 0