Secular Quotes

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

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 Christian teaching whatsoever.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

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 world.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

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 best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.