The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position. — John Green Copy Share Image
Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it… — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where… — Jihae Copy Share Image
The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Secular thinkers have a separation between thinking and doing. They don't have a grasp of the balance sheet. The doers are selling… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious.… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
“The secular are at this moment in history a great deal more optimistic than the religious – something of an irony, given… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“The research projects that I have recently undertaken have shown me that our modern societies, which claim to be secular, are, on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
“the modern religions of secular salvation have undermined their own main assumption: that the future would be materially superior to the present.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations. — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday. — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image. — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
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