Postsecular Quotes & Sayings

Electing Sudan to the U.N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter. — Hillel Neuer

His smile is too beautiful for this world, and I am dying of love. — Ann Aguirre

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage. — Michelle Harrison

Technology is very important; it enables connection to one another, which is essential. — David Batstone

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever form we can get it. I suspect that if anyone other than Jesus (Krishna, say, or Buddha) were suddenly put forward as being due for a second coming, millions in our postsecular society would embrace such a thing uncritically, leaving Enlightenment rationalism huffing and puffing in the rear. We are a puzzled and confused generation, embracing any and every kind of nonrationalism that may offer us a spiritual shot in the arm while lapsing back into rationalism (in particular, the old modernist critiques) whenever we want to keep traditional or orthodox Christianity at bay. — N. T. Wright

That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing ... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self — Carlos Castaneda

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable. — Liane Moriarty

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary. — Alanis Morissette

Why have one chandelier when you can have two? — Candice Olson

Caliph Vathek and his dark horde
Are bound for Hell, you won't be bored!
Your faith in me will be restored
Unless this token you find untoward
And my poor gift you have ignored. — Cassandra Clare

I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn't help much either. It was really tough. — Devon Bostick

I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that. — Vince McMahon

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. — Anne Boleyn

Mystery is an intellectual process ... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. — Alfred Hitchcock

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research. — Joel Miller