I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
“For an organization that has expressly denied religious standing and publicly claims a secular—even scientific—approach, it is curious that AA retains these… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not… — Martin Bucer Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Whether we "spiritualize" our life or "secularize" our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The gods of the traditional world, with their supernatural powers, have been replaced by humans with bombs and shopping lists; the apocalypse… — Matthew Barrett Gross Copy Share Image
My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Secular humanists should recognize those forms of religion as allies in the struggle for human advancement. They should also learn from them,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
“The religious lesson is that God celebrates when the unrighteous change their way and return to the flock. In the secular sense… — Jim M. Perdue Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
For decades the popular notion has been that if the church was going to reach the culture it first needed to connect… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means.… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that… — Tom Flynn Copy Share Image
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson… — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw… — Robert Pape Copy Share Image
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