However, if they believed the promise of everlasting bliss…

“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently quite tolerant…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“if people believe in infinite bliss in the afterlife, they’ll be more willing to accept an appalling degree of oppression and injustice in this…

— Greta Christina

“But he knew full well that marriage vows were not a guarantee, nor a promise, of everlasting happiness.”

— Kristen Callihan

Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching does no good.

— Darrel Ray

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

— Leon Wieseltier

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people…

— Ross Douthat

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific…

— Ross Douthat

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

— Joel Hunter

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

— Tim LaHaye

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to…

— Lobsang Tenzin

Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves.…

— Os Guinness

Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

— Dalai Lama

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to…

— Ross Douthat

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

— Ross Douthat

Environmentalism, apocalyptic environmentalism in particular, has become the dominant religion of supposedly secular people in the West.

— Michael Shellenberger