Top 902 Secular Humanism Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria.

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about!

I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; he is the way, and all other ways are no way at all... We live in an age of humanism - over the last several decades, man has fought to purge God from his conscience and culture. He has managed to make himself the center of all things.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

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

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

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

If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.

The majority of Jews are secular... the Nazis never checked if anyone was going to the synagogue or eating kosher.

Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count.

We have left and right; religious and secular; Druse; ultra-Orthodox women. Unity is very important.

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists.

Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.

The Congress needs to consolidate its secular credentials. Its soft Hindutva approach would only help the BJP.

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

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

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.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.

The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.

A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it.

I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts."

Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

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

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

In a vast and diverse country like India, a political party with secular ideology can ensure stable and progressive government.

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

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.