In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church,… — Leanne Payne Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Many people celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday for the most part than a Christian holiday. Obviously, many, many people celebrate it… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Faith is a personal accord between a lone soul and that in which it chooses to believe. In any other guise it… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The agreement is fundamentally that we want to try to resolve this. The agreement is that ISIL is a threat to everybody,… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as… — Jon Meacham 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
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
I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I believe that the environment at home has been fairly secular and liberal. And most times, it comes from my mother. Our… — Ishaan Khatter Copy Share Image
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea,… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Learning about sacred things should come first, providing a context and need for secular learning. If we want to return to our… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
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