Secular Quotes
311 quotes by 254 authors
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Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no…
— William Booth
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like…
— Nikki Giovanni
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The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.…
— Arthur Goldberg
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion…
— Yann Martel
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
— Taslima Nasrin
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The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries…
— Taslima Nasrin
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Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.
— M. Scott Peck
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I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts,…
— Brian Littrell
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
— Nancy Pearcey
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I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long…
— Tom Perrotta
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Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological…
— Murray Rothbard
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It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the…
— Calvin Seerveld
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Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after…
— Criss Jami
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines.…
— N. T. Wright
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No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on…
— Rod Parsley
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The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
— Rod Parsley
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Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a…
— Gerhard Richter
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Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference…
— James Madison
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