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We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
— Alain De Botton
My fear, which I shared with everyone in the Turkish secular bourgeoisie, was not of God but of the fury of those who believed in Her too much.
— Orhan Pamuk
The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.
— Ahmed Zewail
A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
— Paul Eldridge
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.
— Hans Kung
I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.
— Beeban Kidron
But our hope does not lie in enforcing our ethic upon secular governments. We can't legislate the kingdom of God into existence.
— Preston Sprinkle
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being.
— Edward Schillebeeckx
The new post-Saddam Iraq had no secular heros.
— Patrick Cockburn
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.
— Leon Wieseltier
Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion.
— Angela Merkel
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.
— Sarah Ruhl
So this was all you got:the zooty sideburns and masturbator's pallor of an old Ted in a black suit and the secular obsequies.
— Martin Amis
A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life
— Dean Cavanagh
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional
— Trinh T. Minh-ha
secular people don't believe in life after death, but rather, they believe in life before death.
— Phil Zuckerman
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
— David Antin
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
— Peter L. Berger
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.
— Edward Alsworth Ross
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
— James Joyce
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
— Michael Shermer
The doubter's doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in a secular age.
— James K.A. Smith
We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria.
— Sergei Lavrov
A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.
— Nancy Pearcey
The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.
— Paul Weyrich
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
— Salman Rushdie
Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
— Boris Kodjoe
Strength in peace. Strength in love. Always.
— Janice Anderson
Terrorism has no religion, but secularism has one and only one.
— Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal'
It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.
— Charlie Musselwhite
Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.
— Brigitte Gabriel
When religious law becomes civil law, does the state not cease being secular, and become theocratic or theocentric?
— Christina Engela
We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.
— Gary DeMar
The dominant ethos of the twenty-first century consists of an intermingling of the sacred and the secular.
— Harvey Cox
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
— William Bennett
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.
— Guenter Lewy
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
— Timothy Keller
When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time
— Svetlana Alexievich
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.
— Chris Matthews
An Islamist is a Muslim who seeks to impose Shariah on others, including many 'cultural' or secular Muslims.
— Dennis Prager
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
— John Legend
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.
— Lawrence Summers
'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.
— Eric Liu
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
— Esther Perel
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
— Michel Onfray
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
— John Green
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
— Joseph Addison
By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.
— Don Feder
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
— Anthony Giddens
In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.
— Charles Colson
I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.
— Anne Rice
Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.
— Phyllis Chesler
News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.
— Gracia Martore
Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
— Rand Paul
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
— Lionel Blue
Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected ... Government and true Christianity are inseparable.
— Robert Simonds
American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.
— Pat Buchanan
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
— Pythagoras
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
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
— Franz Grillparzer
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.
— Stephen Young
The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
— Cynthia Ozick
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
— M.H. Abrams
irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.
— Erwin Raphael McManus
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
— Ben Elton
We're a very religious country; the government's secular.
— Tucker Carlson
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
— A.C. Grayling
We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.
— Bill Johnson
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
— Jesse Eisenberg
As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.
— Jonathan Falwell
Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.
— Joel Hunter
Secular music was not allowed in our household.
— Paul Brandt
Iraq's always been very secular.
— William Kristol
I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.
— Louis Farrakhan
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.
— Fred Edwords
I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.
— Jay Parini
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
— Judith Plaskow
We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.
— Maggie Nelson
Jacob's Ladder represents a bridge between Jacob's secular mindset to make it in this world and the reality of Heavenly things.
— R.C. Sproul
The line between sacred and secular is man-made.
— Sarah Bessey