Secular Quotes

311 quotes by 254 authors

Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to… — Michael Ruse
When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will… — Ramana Maharshi
The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people who want to… — Bill O'Reilly
You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities… — Josemaria Escriva
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the… — Salman Rushdie
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but it is actually… — Stephen Batchelor
One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas.… — Russell Brand
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains… — Merlin Stone
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean… — Timothy Leary
And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in… — William Kristol
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. — Vidal Sassoon
The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. — Newt Gingrich
The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is… — Newt Gingrich
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human… — Barbara Brown Taylor
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders;… — Billy Graham
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter
Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these… — Jurgen Habermas

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