Secular Quotes

311 quotes by 254 authors

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. — James Joyce
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular,… — Whitley Strieber
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would… — Sigmund Freud
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need… — William J. Clinton
American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of… — Pat Buchanan
Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify… — Pat Buchanan
This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory… — Timothy Keller
The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . .… — Joe Conason
Politics in America is the binding secular religion. — Theodore White
[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such… — Bill Bryson
Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation.… — Hugh B. Brown
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins,… — Pat Robertson
I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and… — Ludwig von Mises
And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt — F. F. Bruce
If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not… — Marjane Satrapi
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his… — Richard Rorty

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