Secular Quotes

“The line between sacred and secular is man-made.”

— Sarah Bessey

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

— Richard Powers

“There is divinity to be found in the secular.”

— Terence Callery

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

— Epicurus

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

— Richard Dawkins

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

— Benjamin Franklin

Secular humanism debases the human.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

— Ben Elton

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Vidal Sassoon

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

— Eric Metaxas

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

— Sushil Koirala

I believe in all the secular values that Indian democracy is famous for.

— Manisha Koirala

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

— Os Guinness

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

— Dennis Prager

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Edward Alsworth Ross

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the…

— Alain de Botton

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly…

— Marvin Olasky

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

— Carter Heyward

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it…

— Robert Runcie

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound…

— Henry Van Dyke

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But…

— Dalai Lama

Secular thinkers have a separation between thinking and doing. They don't have a grasp of the balance sheet. The doers are selling…

— Alain de Botton

If you are a kid in America, and you live in a secular home and go to public school, you know nothing…

— Bill O'Reilly

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious…

— Danielle Trussoni

It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be…

— John Hagee

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have…

— Richard Cobden

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious.…

— Matisyahu

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You…

— John Bytheway

I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in…

— Gerhard Richter

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that…

— Stephen Jay Gould

…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them…

— Joseph Campbell

This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly…

— Lesslie Newbigin

The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the…

— Cecil Roth

Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -…

— Pankaj Mishra

The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later…

— Manning Marable