We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“They considered all of life to be part of a great mystery and knew there was no way to separate the secular… — Susan Gregg Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's strange because we think of the upper middle class, for example, as being secular, that they've fallen away from religion. Well,… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“The secular are at this moment in history a great deal more optimistic than the religious – something of an irony, given… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it… — Vittorio Arrigoni Copy Share Image
This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset. — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not,… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“We have made our worship services more secular than sacred, more common than uncommon, more profane than holy.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
![“The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of…” quote by Watchman Nee](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3d1/watchman-nee-1561_active_the-clerical-system-of-church-management_802633.jpg)
