Secularist Ethics Quotes & Sayings

It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny. — T. Scott McLeod

Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for. — Henry Blackaby

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has resulted in our "cut flower culture." Cut flowers retain their original beauty and fragrance, but only so long as they retain the vitality that they have drawn from their now-severed roots; after that is exhausted, they wither and die. So with freedom, brotherhood, justice, and personal dignity - the values that form the moral foundation of our civilization. Without the life-giving power of the faith out of which they have sprung, they possess neither meaning nor vitality. — Will Herberg

Life is like a fondue: the best fruit ain't the best till it's been through some goo. — Jack Bunbury

Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel. — Pierce Brown

Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette. — Margaret Atwood

The question is not at present, however, of removing mountains, a thing that will one day be simple to us, but of waking and rising from the dead now. — George MacDonald

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough. — Sappho

At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time. — Oleg Cassini

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second. — Daniel J. Levitin