The distinction between the religious and secular orders…

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event…

— Hannah Arendt

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

— Will Herberg

In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and…

— Virchand Gandhi

The secular utopians basically said the exact same thing, they just took the Bible out of the equation. The religious and the secular groups…

— Christine Jennings

Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows…

— William C. Brown

“From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted as a…

— Alister E. McGrath

I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Religious or secular, all myths make profound sense to one group of people. Not to everyone. They cannot be rationalized beyond a point. In…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that…

— Karen Armstrong

The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam.

— Walter Kasper

“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