I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave. — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“As George Marsden reminds us, “at the time of the American Revolution there was no distinctly ‘Christian’ line of political thought as… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Secular entertaining is a terrible bondage. Its source is human pride. Demanding perfection, fostering the urge to impress, it is a rigorous… — Karen Burton Mains Copy Share Image
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
It wouldn't matter if every single President since Washington had been a Bible-toting, evangelical Christian. They weren't, of course, but even if… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“there is here a striving, avid and worldly civilisation, of course; these huge and eager markets, to this incessant buying and selling,… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show,… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
“The question of how to function openly as a religious person in an increasingly secular, relativistic culture is not particular to Southern… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving. — Gracia Martore Copy Share Image
The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
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