Secular Quotes · Page 2

Iraq's always been very secular.

— William Kristol

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.

— Safak Pavey

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

— Sam Harris

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

— William Ralph Inge

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

— John Green

“Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

— Theodore White

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

— Rachel Maddow

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to…

— Christopher Hitchens

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it…

— Robert Runcie

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where…

— Jihae

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

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to…

— Albert Mohler

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But…

— Dalai Lama

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

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

It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be…

— John Hagee

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious.…

— Matisyahu

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have…

— Richard Cobden

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

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The secular are at this moment in history a great deal more optimistic than the religious – something of an irony, given…

— Alain de Botton

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the…

— Watchman Nee

“The research projects that I have recently undertaken have shown me that our modern societies, which claim to be secular, are, on…

— Anonymous

I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are,…

— Ravi Zacharias

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

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

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

“the modern religions of secular salvation have undermined their own main assumption: that the future would be materially superior to the present.…

— Pankaj Mishra

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...

— Richard Dawkins

I have been with the Congress because I believe in a secular ideology.

— Nagma

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

— Will Herberg

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.

— Fred Edwords

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

— Randy Alcorn

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

— Nyla Ali Khan