#secular

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#feel #growth #made #organized #science

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. ↗

— John Legend

#choice #gospel #growing #growing up #had

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. ↗

— Eric Liu

#christian faith #every #faith #just #life

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. ↗

— Richard Powers

#last #prayer #reading #secular

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#character #emotional #facet #how #innately

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#humanism #point #point of view #said #secular

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#inspirational #religion #secularism #inspirational

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. ↗

— Yann Martel

#art #background #beyond #bounds #certainly

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government. ↗

— Roy Moore

#both #church #god #government #meant

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#deadly #i #i believe #i believe that #long