The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose… — John Green Copy Share Image
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who… — Raul Hilberg Copy Share Image
I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open… — Brian Littrell Copy Share Image
They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing,… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent. — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith. — Don Feder Copy Share Image
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all? — William Bennett Copy Share Image
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
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