Quotes of: Secular Keyword

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

Peter L. Berger

Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any traditional sense, was relegated to the private sphere with no hold over public life. There are many charms in secularism, in particular the freedom to b...

George Friedman

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

Leon Wieseltier

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

A Secular Age

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.

The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

Secular humanists of every type may ridicule the Bible, but they cannot escape it; and in their obsession with change, calls for reform, doomsday warnings, and utopian visions, they continue to steal from it.

Loving God With All Your Mind: How to Survive and Prosper As a Christian in the Secular University and Post-Christian Culture

The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism.

Ben Shapiro

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

James E. Faust

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.

Amity Shlaes

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that natu...

Dennis Prager

One of the challenges of secularism is that it's not something outside us. In too many instances, secularism has so permeated the church that sometimes it's the frame of reference even for very good people, people who have a strong allegiance to the ...

Donald Wuerl

While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through analysis and research — to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions that support the...

Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings

If you can't let go of the power you possess, if you can't surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.

Notes from the Underground: The Spiritual Journal of a Secular Priest

Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing this moral truth even if they can't articulate their reasons in strictly secular terms.

The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture

The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong with America's Schools

The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stray from morality to idol worship, creating a world in which a murderer can be forgiven and sent to heaven, whereas a loving and car...

Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings