#secular

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. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#apostles #did #down #enamored #get

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#secularism #faith

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#politics #secularism #islam

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. ↗

— Angela Carter

#authentic #credit #gain #hoax #miracle

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#comes #critic #dismal #every #every man

Politics in America is the binding secular religion. ↗

— Theodore White

#binding #politics #religion #secular

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#against #around #funeral #high #humanists

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#before #biographies #drawn #few #had

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#elites #get #got #islam #islamists

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#everybody #formed #forward #intellectual #know