Secularist Quotes

#1. It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

Stephen Ambrose

#2. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

#3. I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

Paul Krassner

#4. I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

David Ives

#5. I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.

Ayad Allawi

#6. Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

Rory McIlroy

#7. Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.

Hans H Wellisch

#8. No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. Marie-Laure holds out an open palm. The sparrow tilts his head, considering. Then it flaps away. One month later she is blind.

Anthony Doerr

#10. It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

Drake Bell

#11. There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher.

Steve Maraboli

#12. I don't give a shit what people call me as long as I can go to sleep at night.

Stephen King

#13. There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

#14. There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

Cesar Millan

#15. Even the secularist is pressed by a sense of something more - some "fullness" that wells up within (or presses down upon) the managed immanent frame we've constructed in modernity.

James K.A. Smith

#16. The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

Jane Pauley

#17. The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

Richard Rorty

#18. Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Karen Armstrong

#19. If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

Salman Rushdie

#20. The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.

Geoffrey Wood

#21. My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Richard M. Rorty

#22. I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

Pankaj Mishra

#23. Contrary to secularist myth, science in practice is innately and irrepressibly religious: it serves either God or idolatry. But one of the features of idolatry is deceit. In this case, idolatry conceals from itself that it is idolatry.

Vern Sheridan Poythress