Age and use do not make a style obsolete in the church as…

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

— William Ralph Inge

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

— Ivan Illich

“The secular church is one dominated by the world, as much of the contemporary church is. It is characterized by the world’s wisdom, the…

— James Montgomery Boice

St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard…

— Alphonsus Liguori

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am,…

— Watchman Nee

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

— Baron de Montesquieu

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

— Taisen Deshimaru

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology…

— Ann Douglas

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

— Emma Goldman

The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.

— Fred Edwords

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate…

— James Madison

My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers…

— Elif Batuman

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls