Quotes About Secular

I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given them little alternative but to find other means of expression. Inevitably, some of this would be violent.

Watching children sleep makes me feel devout, part of a spiritual system. It is the closest I can come to God. If there is a secular equivalent of standing in a great spired cathedral with marble pillars and streams of mystical light slanting through two-tier Gothic windows, it would be watching children in their little bedrooms fast asleep. Girls especially.

we have allowed secular thinkers to frame the debate, and the Christian voice has been muffled at best.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

His message was that educators must find a way to teach compassion and moral values apart from a religious context.

Martin Buber as described for basic virtues cultivated by the Hasidim to overcome the separation of the sacred and secular. . . . St. Benedict spoke of them as truly seeking God, zeal for a humble way of life, zeal for obedience, and zeal for the opus of God. Buber catalogues them as kavana (single-mindedness), shiflut (humility), avada (service), and hitlahavut (fire of ecstasy). 129

Grounded in the neo-platonic dualistic separation of the sacred and secular worlds, such an understanding has enabled the spread of a race-based hierarchical/patriarchal system that supported the enslavement not just of other human beings but of other Christians, the dehumanization of women and persons of color,

Muslims of British India had opted for a separate homeland in 1947, destroying the possibility of a secular India in which Hindus and Muslims would coexist, because they believed that they would be physically safe, and their religion secure, in a new nation called Pakistan. Instead, within six decades, Pakistan had become one of the most violent nations on earth, not because Hindus were killing Muslims but because Muslims were killing Muslims.

Father Alfonso and Father Octavio could make Pepe feel as if he were a betrayer of the Catholic faith—as if he were a raving secular humanist, or worse. (Could there be anyone worse, from a Jesuitical perspective?) Father Alfonso and Father Octavio knew their Catholic dogma by rote; while the two priests talked circles around Brother Pepe, and they made Pepe feel inadequate in his belief, they were irreparably doctrinaire.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.

Prefiero ser un católico seglar que coopera con la Iglesia, a una marioneta en esta pocilga irreligiosa de mal gusto.

were now subject to the authority of a single secular ruler: the king of Mercia.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

The most radical views of church–state relations in sixteenth-century Europe were held by the Anabaptists, who rejected almost all of the links between the sacred and the secular that had been built up in Europe since the age of Constantine.

In passato l'apocalisse, dal punto di vista religioso ma anche secolare, è sempre stata considerata un evento singolo improvviso, un flash accecante dal cielo, una bomba nucleare. Oggi, pensiamo al cambiamento climatico, la fine dei tempi appare più come una lenta dissoluzione. E questo fa sì che non abbiamo il paradigma mitologico per darle un senso, non sappiamo come pensarla, come darle una forma.

It was from Buber's other writings that I learned what could also be found in I and Thou: the central commandment to make the secular sacred.

Skill in secular employments is God's gift, and comes from above, Jam. 1:17.

In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious ways ...

Electronic media is powerful and pervasive and is radically shaping modern culture with profoundly secular attitudes, values, and behavior.

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

As Tozer said in The Pursuit of God, "it is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.