I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little…

As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.

— Ayelet Shaked

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it…

— Luke Ford

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

— J. Oswald Sanders

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not…

— Alain de Botton

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can…

— M. Scott Peck

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

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