Secular Quotes
311 quotes by 254 authors
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Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go…
— Paul Washer
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In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to…
— John Stott
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One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism
— Peter L. Berger
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Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very…
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.
— Tim LaHaye
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It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.
— M. Russell Ballard
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For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines…
— Ellen Willis
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Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular…
— Talal Asad
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If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of…
— Sister Nivedita
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According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned.…
— C. Wright Mills
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Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away.…
— Vittorio Arrigoni
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If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s way…
— David Rakoff
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The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind,…
— Jerry Pournelle
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They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed…
— Pope Pius IV
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There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds…
— Christian Wiman
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Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around,…
— Peter L. Berger
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The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.
— Paul Weyrich
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The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
— J. Oswald Sanders
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As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.
— Jonathan Falwell
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