Secular Quotes

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If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and… — Brennan Manning
If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a… — John Bytheway
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. — Madeleine L'Engle
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
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing… — Cormac McCarthy
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are… — Chaim Potok
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 difference between the… — Madeleine L'Engle
And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a… — Edmond Rostand
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. — Sam Harris
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual… — Soren Kierkegaard
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the… — Susan Sontag
Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the… — Carl Sagan
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more… — Christopher Hitchens
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my… — Mahatma Gandhi
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone… — Alain de Botton
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a… — Alain de Botton
Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular… — Robert Anton Wilson
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of… — Umberto Eco

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