Secular Quotes · Page 4

The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.

— David Farr

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

— Ronald H. Nash

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

— Shannon Bream

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

— R. C. Sproul

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

— Noam Chomsky

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

— Charles M. Schulz

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

— Rand Paul

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

— Mark Twain

Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there…

— Eric Metaxas

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

— Dennis Prager

It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned…

— Charles Colson

I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite…

— Daniel Smith

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive…

— Luke Ford

The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they…

— Nancy Pearcey

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't…

— William J. Clinton

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are…

— Hugo Black

I think that the secular work environment in general is a place that's challenging for Christians to thrive in without getting caught…

— Scott Derrickson

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on…

— W. H. Auden

There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every…

— Francis Schaeffer

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much…

— William Odom

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it…

— Jeremy Taylor

And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq…

— Dennis Miller

In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer,…

— Steve McCurry

“I am not in favor of offending or hurting anyone just for the sake of it. But I am intrigued and mystified…

— Richard Dawkins

“Secular society has been unfairly impoverished by the loss of an array of practices and themes which atheists typically find it impossible…

— Alain de Botton

It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not…

— Charles Colson

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our…

— John Stott

“ Washington , like most scholarly Virginians of his time, was a Deist ... Contemporary evidence shows that in mature life Washington…

— Moncure D. Conway

There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas…

— Joan Wallach Scott

Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left…

— Burhan Sonmez

My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an…

— Eliza Griswold

Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary,…

— David Fisher

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

— Roger E. Olson

I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

— Michaela Coel

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

— Dalai Lama

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

— A. J. Jacobs

We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.

— Bill Johnson

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

— Boris Kodjoe

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

— Tim LaHaye

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

— David Antin