Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod,"… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
“Nothing human is merely human,” writes the theologian Ronald Modras. “No common labor is merely common. Classrooms, hospitals, and artists’ studios are… — Jim Manney Copy Share Image
There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our… — John Milton 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
“The gods of the traditional world, with their supernatural powers, have been replaced by humans with bombs and shopping lists; the apocalypse… — Matthew Barrett Gross Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
“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
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
There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it… — Alan Wolfe Copy Share Image
“We should give chaos pride of place once a year or so, designating occasions on which we can be briefly exempted from… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious component of Judaism,… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle… — Cormac McCarthy 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is… — Criss Jami 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
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious.… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
