Secular Quotes

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts."

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

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.

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

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 himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.

If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your own.

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

Jesus communicated parables to the secular people around him and he used stories that were very relevant to their lives, and He was taking heaven's truth and packaging it in an earthly context.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows its evolution.

Iraq's always been very secular.

The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.