Secular Sacred Dichotomy Quotes & Sayings

Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life. — Milton Friedman

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye. — Bertrand Russell

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend. — H.W. Brands

The common understanding among Muslims, no doubt indoctrinated by Western notions, is that a secular state is a state that is not governed by the 'ulama', or whose legal system is not established upon the revealed law. In other words it is not a theocratic state. But this setting in contrast the secular state with the theocratic state is not really an Islamic way of understanding the matter, for since Islam does not involve itself in the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane, how then can it set in contrast the theocratic state with the secular state? — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it. — Paullina Simons

Kaleb hadn't expected anything else - if he were on the other side, he wouldn't trust himself either. — Nalini Singh

A son of a Jedi Knight? I thought the Jedi weren't allowed such relationships."
That wrung an half ironic grin out of me. "Guess I'm not allowed, then. — Kevin Hearne

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church. — Henry Adams

One can't separate the soul from the body in the way Thyatira's Jezebel would like because humankind is so uniquely linked to embodiment that our lives will always have some form of corporeal existence. Thus Paul in particular implores believers to "glorify God in your body" (1 Cor. 6:20) and prays that our "spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess. 5:23). Biblical hope never completely separates the soul from the body, and so there can be no dichotomy between the sacred and the secular for the believer. The — T. Scott Daniels

Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them. — Cheech Marin

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary. — Julia Kristeva

To divide life into areas of sacred and secular, letting our devotions take care of the former while becoming secular reformers during the week, is to fail to understand the true end of man — Henry R. Van Til

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me. — Fiona Apple

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. — David Byrne

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them. — Ronald Frame