Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Writing in the 1950s, Daniel Bell, the great American sociologist, said, ‘economic growth has become the secular religion of advancing industrial societies’.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I love having millions of viewers and I want the show to grow. But more than anything I hope it always impacts… — Cynthia Garrett Copy Share Image
“Along with the usual secular values (such as appropriate tolerance/intolerance, morality, critical thinking, appreciation for reason and science), don’t forget to impart… — Dale McGowan Copy Share Image
I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past,… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast.… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything… — Natalia Kills Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the… — Bob Colacello 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
“A highly trained scientist who is also a perfected man may eventually create a world and people it, but a dissolute unrepentant,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So,… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your… — Ross Douthat 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
I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset. — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
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