We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
When I was ordained as a pastor, I walked away from secular music for seven, eight years. It took me that time… — Al Green Copy Share Image
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head. — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
“In the words of human rights scholar Max Stackhouse, “Intellectual honesty demands recognition of the fact that what passes as ‘secular,’ ‘Western’… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The oft-cited charge that belief in God and religion has led to more wars and evil than anything else is as untrue… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“He did not need to be ordained, for the traditional religion of the Xhosas is characterized by a cosmic wholeness, so that… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“As George Marsden reminds us, “at the time of the American Revolution there was no distinctly ‘Christian’ line of political thought as… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
When we see through the lens of God's truth, revealed primarily in his Word, everything comes into sharper focus. Suddenly, we'll see… — Kenneth Boa 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
The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
“A secular humanist can be liberal or conservative, pro-abortion or anti-abortion, or belong to different political parties.” — Jimmy Clay Copy Share Image
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron. — Judith Plaskow Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is an animal trait, not a human one - sacredness is a secular practice, not sectarian - culture is an act… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“Church doctrine has no place in secular law. You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria.” — Marie Sexton 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
India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine. — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image
The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say,… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
