Secular Quotes

You say, 'Well, I love secular music.' Let me just share something with you: I don't care. I'm not going to go there; this is what I'm going to tell you: It doesn't matter to me whether it's secular or Christian. My question is, what's being said in those words? Because if what's being said in those words contradicts the will of God, you're violating His will, and you're loving it.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other.

Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

n our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

Secular humanism debases the human.

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

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

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

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.

If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there.

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

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