Secular Quotes
311 quotes by 254 authors
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You say, 'Well, I love secular music.' Let me just share something with you: I don't care. I'm not going to go there; this is…
— Paul Washer
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A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital…
— Albert Mohler
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
— Timothy Keller
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.
— Leon Wieseltier
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When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building…
— Eric Metaxas
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Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately,…
— Zeena Schreck
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One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
— Noam Chomsky
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I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h…
— Mary Daly
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The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the…
— Noah Webster
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Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular…
— Naomi Weisstein
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But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex;…
— Esther Perel
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Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply…
— Mike Mason
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Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.
— Lawrence Summers
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Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no…
— Alain de Botton
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It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings…
— Alain de Botton
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Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.
— David Barton
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The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will…
— Barack Obama
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The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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