Secular Influence Quotes

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.

You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

Historically, both religious and secular laws originate from the same source

I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.

I think the great irony of history will be that it was a secular billionaire from New York who turned out the be the most faith-friendly president in history.

American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted away from my faith. Its amazing...as successful as I was as an actor, and the money and the fame, there was still something missing.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

If the Christian community responds to our music better because maybe we gained a little more credibility in the mainstream, then it's not ideal, it's not fun, it's not sexy, but I'll take it.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.

When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.