Post Secularism Quotes & Sayings

BUTs are like bad habits. They have to be acknowledged, accepted, and aggressively managed. — Joseph Azelby

If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault. — Ken Follett

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions. — Nina Fedoroff

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do. — Neale Donald Walsch

The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it. — Harvey Cox

Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. "Atheistic humanism" became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today's European Union, a kind of dehumamism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction. Post-Christian European culture is already post-cultural and, with its surging Muslim populations, will soon be post-European. — Mark Steyn

I wasn't going to say anything about that, Tabitha," he said quietly. "I only wanted to tell you that your compassion for other people overwhelms me."
"Oh." She offered him a tenuous smile. "I'm just used to people condemning everything I do."
He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. "I don't condemn you, my lady. I only admire you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. — Nikola Tesla

The girl worked the clutch and the gas and the brake expertly with her right foot, just as her father had taught her. — Joe Hill

Flapping crows. Shiny beetles crawling in the undergrowth. A patch of sky, frozen in a cloudy retina, reflected in a puddle on the ground. Yoo-hoo. Being and nothingness. — Donna Tartt

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights. — Fran Lebowitz

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. — Aldous Huxley

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man. — Arnold Rothstein

The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring. — Ada Calhoun