Secular Quotes

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.

Secular humanism debases the human.

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.

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.

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

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

In the very first part of the constitution there is the article that refuses any law or any article in discrepancy with Sharia. We Iraqis feel it was imposed on us. It wasn't a local thing. Iraqis have led a sort of secular life for almost 50 years.

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

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

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

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.

I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

Iraq's always been very secular.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.