Secularized Quotes

#1. Buying, possessing, accumulating
this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount
doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion
doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

Robert Herrick

#2. People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

Amity Shlaes

#3. Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Emile M. Cioran

#4. Faith that is lived from deep within amid a secularized world is the most powerful ecumenical force that brings us together, guiding us towards unity in the one Lord. And we pray to him, asking that we may learn to live the faith anew, and that in this way we may then become one

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

Harold Bloom

#6. Rationalism ... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

Paul Feyerabend

#7. The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

Raymond Geuss

#8. How catastrophic is it when the church herself becomes secularized and expressive individualism sits in the driver's seat in the church's life and mission. When the church has lost connection with Christ her living head, she loses her soul.

Harold L. Senkbeil

#9. The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

Alain De Botton

#10. The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision!

Richard King

#11. In other words, the unique value of the 'authentic' work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.

Walter Benjamin

#12. The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road ... then trees.

Robert Liparulo

#13. I think that age is a number. Right now I feel good and I'm playing well, so I think that 36 is good.

Steve Smith, Sr.

#14. If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

Gregor Strasser

#15. I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Elia Kazan

#16. Your child's sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

Daniel Bates