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In church politics, you're surprised when people are bad, while in secular politics you're surprised when people are good.
- Mike Huckabee
Even if a group of children were put "on an island and they raised themselves," Barrett adds, "I think they would believe in God." 13 It appears that we have to be educated out of the knowledge of God by secular schools and media.
- Nancy Pearcey
A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.
- Nancy Pearcey
A Christian approach to any field needs to be both critical and constructive. We cannot simply borrow from the results of secular scholarship as though that were spiritually neutral territory discovered by people whose minds are completely open and objective- that is, *as though the fall had never happened*.
- Nancy Pearcey
The modern world is highly secular in certain parts, and nowhere more than in the world of the educated elites. Such people are notoriously "tone deaf" and their natural habitat is "a world without windows," as Weber and Berger have described them.
- Os Guinness
A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply happen at random, nor does he ever think of his life as being divided into the secular and the sacred. He sees every situation in which he finds himself as the means of obtaining a greater knowledge of Jesus Christ, and he has an attitude of unrestrained abandon and total surrender about him.
- Oswald Chambers
I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance.
- William Lane Craig
Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.
- Dinesh D'Souza
I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.
- Nicky Gumbel
Here we are [at BYU] doing what is not done in any other major university of which I am aware. We are demonstrating that faith in the Almighty can accompany and enrich scholarship in the secular. It is more than an experiment. It is an accomplishment.
- Gordon Hinckley
Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.
- Gregory of Nyssa
The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.
- Thomas Becket