Secular Quotes · Page 6

“Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— David Antin

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

— Angela Carter

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

— Joel Hunter

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

— Anubhav Sinha

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

— Luke Ford

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Albert Mohler

“The crimes of religion pale in comparison to those of secular regimes. This doesn't justify wrongs done in the name of Christianity,…

— Scott Klusendorf

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high…

— E. O. Wilson

Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a -…

— Rick Santorum

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

— Jane Swisshelm

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

— Nancy Pearcey

I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach…

— Paul Blanshard

India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role…

— Taslima Nasrin

“There is no such thing as Christian rap and secular rap. Only people can become Christians. Music can't accept Jesus into its…

— Lecrae Moore

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be…

— John F. Kerry

My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations…

— Nicky Gumbel

“The gods of the traditional world, with their supernatural powers, have been replaced by humans with bombs and shopping lists; the apocalypse…

— Matthew Barrett Gross

“Whether we "spiritualize" our life or "secularize" our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at…

— Alexander Schmemann

“The secular progressive movement in America has been successful in removing all vestiges of faith in God from the public square. The…

— Ben Carson

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

“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

“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among…

— Paul Johnson

“Even from the most rigorous scientific perspective, unselfishness and concern for others are not only in our own interests but also, in…

— Dalai Lama XIV

My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most…

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

— A. J. Jacobs

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

— Michaela Coel

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

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

— Bill Johnson

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

— Mark Twain

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

— Roger E. Olson

A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an…

— Ken Moelis