According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who… — Raul Hilberg Copy Share Image
They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing,… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life.… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Nothing human is merely human,” writes the theologian Ronald Modras. “No common labor is merely common. Classrooms, hospitals, and artists’ studios are… — Jim Manney Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod,"… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If you create enough space in Egypt, civil society will revive itself, and then will you have all of these secular forces,… — Hisham Melhem Copy Share Image
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain,… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant? —I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
“Bonhoeffer's thought is not determined by the ultimacy of this world but by his opposition to 'the separation ... (of) the two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hold conferences, and the result of that was that the secular community also started picking up my stuff, and pretty soon… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint,… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Christ is still in Christmas, and for one brief season the secular world broadcasts the message of Christ over every radio station… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs:… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
If I had to guess, I'd estimate that 9 out of 10 Liberty students come to Christian college on their own, with… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I dream that one day I can really combine where I came from on network TV, with where I am, and not… — Cynthia Garrett Copy Share Image
With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters.… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew - secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing - fears being killed because he is… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image