Quotes About Secular

The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to governments and groups outside the church.

Meaningful ritual and ceremony affirm our relationship to the sacred and nourish both the spiritual and secular worlds. Our inner nature needs acknowledgment from our conscious personality as much as our egos need to remember their source in the collective unconscious.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

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.

I don't bring religion into the square.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Loyalty to the Jewish people is, for Judaism, a religious act. That's why religious Zionists never hesitated to partner with secular Zionists, who love and protect their people. For religious Jews, strengthening the Jewish people contributes to its ability to function as a Divine messenger in the world.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

The most important secular commitment is to the truth, which is based on observation and evidence rather than on mere faith.

Secular ethics relies not on obeying the edicts of this or that god, but rather on a deep appreciation of suffering.

secular world judges people on the basis of their behavior rather than their favorite clothes and ceremonies.

Politicizing Islam means seeing it not as a collection of clearly definable values or "customs," but rather a contested terrain of lived practices and contingent interpretations. Making place for the secular, in particular, remains a significant challenge, especially given that much of the "Muslim world" is secular, albeit increasingly stifled by the Islamic revival.

The left in its worrying routinely forgets this most important secular event since the invention of agriculture—the Great Enrichment of the last two centuries—and goes on worrying and worrying, like the little dog worrying about his bone in the Travelers Insurance advertisement on TV, in a new version every half generation or so.

Certain things had to be done in certain ways to mark the end of the cycle of events; like secular voodoo, it helped to resolve matters, signifying and punctuating.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

One must devote oneself to figuring out that one must live for the good, for its own sake. It was a secular morality. Contemporaries did not know what to call a thing like that—he questioned their every faith, their every way of life—so they called it atheism.

It is significant that none of the modern secular states have neglected to provide national holidays giving occasions for assemblage. American Journal of Sociology, 1896–733

The Church is seen as a secular organization - a real-estate conglomerate, a powerful lobby for the oppression of women - which has little or nothing to do with spiritual transcendence. It will doubtless seek to ban this book. Less than two hundred and fifty years ago, it would have burned the author.

My family and I were welcomed to Canada more than 40 years ago. We sought and obtained refuge in a liberal, modern, and secular society, and put the ugliness of genocidal religious hate and associated tribalism behind us - or so we thought.

At the end of the 30 Years War then, Europe broadly decided to separate the sacred from the secular in its political culture. I know that is an oversimplification, but it is instructive, and it led to a growth in religious tolerance that has characterized the best of Western life since.