Secular Quotes · Page 19

“As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Ross Douthat

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

— Don Feder

A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but…

— Stephen Batchelor

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

— Luke Ford

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a…

— Alain de Botton

We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the…

— Dalai Lama

The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

— Paul Weyrich

The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,…

— John Maynard Keynes

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

— Nancy Pearcey

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

— Gracia Martore

I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found…

— Naomi Weisstein

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

— Nicky Gumbel

I come from a secular background.

— Naveen Patnaik

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference…

— Samuel Pepys

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

— Newt Gingrich

We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which…

— Lech Walesa

Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by…

— Hugh B. Brown

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

— Gary DeMar

Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson…

— Daniel Lapin

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

— Sam Harris

“There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One…

— Arthur Findlay