Secular Quotes

311 quotes by 254 authors

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church,… — Roy Moore
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional — Trinh T. Minh-ha
I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only… — Sam Savage
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another… — Virchand Gandhi
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling,… — Alain de Botton
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M H Abrams
It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head. — Charlie Musselwhite
If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than… — Ethan Zuckerman
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken… — Conrad Black
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck
Christ is still in Christmas, and for one brief season the secular world broadcasts the message of Christ over every radio station and television channel… — R C Sproul
The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no… — Robert C. Solomon
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed:… — Raul Hilberg
I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. — Charles R. Swindoll
We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists,… — Elif Safak
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we… — James MacDonald
What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from… — Robert Pape
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led… — Fred Edwords

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