There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“A highly trained scientist who is also a perfected man may eventually create a world and people it, but a dissolute unrepentant,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Mortality is the time to learn first of God and the gospel and to perform the ordinances. After our feet are set… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Writing in the 1950s, Daniel Bell, the great American sociologist, said, ‘economic growth has become the secular religion of advancing industrial societies’.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is… — Alan Dershowitz 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
“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
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 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
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. — Esther Perel 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
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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
The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image