The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that… — Tom Flynn Copy Share Image
The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means.… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
For decades the popular notion has been that if the church was going to reach the culture it first needed to connect… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
Secular humanists should recognize those forms of religion as allies in the struggle for human advancement. They should also learn from them,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
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Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious.… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a culture war in this country. Americans in recent years, as you know, have become more secular. They don't go to… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
If you believe in what I do, which is secular humanism, I would find it extremely difficult to live with someone -… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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