Secular Quotes

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.

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.

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

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 scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall.

Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.