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«Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers»
Author: John Wycliffe
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apostles, cleric, clerics, evangelize, evangelized, go to war, laborers, lords, secular, The Apostles, toil
«Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it; about facing the existenti»
Author: Tom Flynn
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about-face, accepting, facing, gloriously, humanist, humanists, impulse, indifferent, religious truth, resisting, secular, suspect
«Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.»
«Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
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capture, mystical, mystical experience, readers, replacement, secular, The Visionary, visionaries, visionary
«If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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«Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion.»
«America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.»
Author: Billy Graham
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