Secular Knowledge Quotes

#1. The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

Ronald H. Nash

#2. I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge.

James E. Faust

#3. Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

Sam Harris

#4. A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

Edward Alsworth Ross

#5. The Noblest form of Affection

Oscar Wilde

#6. The Lord performs mighty wonders and glorious miracles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

Umberto Eco

#8. what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

George Eliot

#9. First, I like how the ice cream won out. Second, we're not having sex.

S. Walden

#10. 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.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Roger E. Olson

#12. Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

Irving Layton

#13. People are like germs, only bigger. That bit of wisdom has proven true, for the most part. Humans are little more than highly evolved bacteria, leeches on a rotting ball of clay. It's depressing, I know.

Mike Duran

#14. mmmm, space stuff

Matthew Reilly

#15. A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Conrad Black

#16. On free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity.

Jack Weatherford

#17. We must keep in mind that not all open doors are divine

Christian Michael

#18. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.

Boyd K. Packer

#19. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

Gregory David Roberts