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 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
Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work… — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it… — Alan Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“The conception of secular state is derived from the liberal democratic tradition of west. No institution which is maintained wholly out of… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the… — Esther Perel 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
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag 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
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. — Edward Alsworth Ross 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
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it.… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image