Secular World Quotes

If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.

Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion.

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

We are much rejoiced upon hearing that Your Highness has come to rule Hungary at the order of Almighty God …. You excel in knowledge of church writings, unusual in the secular world and, what is even more fit for a judge’s power, in the knowledge of Holy canons.

The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a monopoly on Judaism. This is a turnoff in a world that is increasingly secular and that has turned away from religion. Jews are simply turning away from Judaism.

Christ is still in Christmas, and for one brief season the secular world broadcasts the message of Christ over every radio station and television channel in the land. Never does the church get as much free air time as during the Christmas season.

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

There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its members to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does!

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.

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

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to the more modern spirituality, the West Coast pseudo-Buddhist thing that people go for these days, actual Buddhism and Islam have been looking at these philosophical questions, at really hard questions, for a long time. There's a lot of stuff that philosophy doesn't talk about, and in the secular world, a lot of times, people don't talk about these ideas, and that was always really interesting for me.

In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years completely immersed in the Hasidic culture, disconnected completely from the secular world - movies, music, people.

Secular humanists should recognize those forms of religion as allies in the struggle for human advancement. They should also learn from them, as they try to build a fully secular world in which people can have the opportunity to live rich and fulfilling lives.

I spend much of my time in a broadly liberal secular world but I don't belong to it, I belong somewhere else.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Militant Christians and Muslims alike see themselves as the only remaining challengers to the agnosticism of an increasingly secular world.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.