Secular Spirituality Quotes

#1. Whether we "spiritualize" our life or "secularize" our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are told God gave his only begotten Son, remains hopelessly beyond our religious grasp.

Alexander Schmemann

#2. Love is patient and kind, it doesn't boast, it isn't proud, it isn't easily pissed off, it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always keeps on doing the damn thing, love never lets you down.

Brandon Massey

#3. Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

J.K. Rowling

#4. Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

Criss Jami

#5. 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

#6. If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world ... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

Albert Schweitzer

#7. Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.

Robert Hood

#8. I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring.

Sienna Miller

#9. 2. Don't diversify, don't splinter, don't try to do too many things at once. This is, of course, the corollary to the 'do': be focused!

Peter F. Drucker

#10. ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

Jack Dangermond

#11. I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#12. Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State.

Donald Trump

#13. He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

Michael Chabon

#14. There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Thomas Huxley

#15. When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time

Svetlana Alexievich

#16. This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

William Shakespeare