“A lot more people are saying they’re spiritual but not religious — but what does that really mean? I would say sports and movement are the most oft way we access a spiritual experience and transcend our ego, but they’re the least discussed and least understood.”— Kristen Ulmer, nytimes.com
“Revolutionary Jesus soon gave way to a plethora of more moderate interpretations of Jesus, allied with new social-science science approaches and neo-Marxian socio-economic analysis among scholars trained in the 1960s.”— Markus Bockmuehl, amazon.com
“The word hierarchy was first used in the sixth century CE, when it referred to levels of angelic choruses, but it soon came to be applied to the governance of the Church, to describe its strictly ordered levels of authority and subordination. Gradually, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuri…”— Caroline Levine, amazon.com
“Jesus is the Rock of Ages for both Marxism and its less vulgar child, Political Correctness in American colleges and universities, today, even though Jesus’s latter-day ducklings would gag on the very thought.”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“We'll make our economy and country more welcoming to people with disabilities.”— Hillary Clinton, twitter.com
“But don’t today’s secular intellectuals engage in secularist spirituality?”— Thomas J. Farrell, d-commons.d.umn.edu
“Because Orwell was decidedly anti-Catholic, we should note here that if we are all God’s children, the Son could be referred to as Big Brother”— Thomas J. Farrell, d-commons.d.umn.edu
“You, who are so liberal and so humane, who have such an exaggerated adoration of culture that it verges on affectation, you pretend to forget that you own colonies and that in them men are massacred in your name.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“The character, Cole, declares, we can invent an app, start a blog, sell things online—words repeated so often they might as well be a prayer: Give-us-this-day-our-daily-bread-for-we-can-invent-an-app-start-a-blog-sell-things-online.”— Ayesha Siddiqi, thenewinquiry.com
“College is corrupt as the Catholic church was 500 years ago. They’re charging people more and more. You have this system of indulgences, you have this priestly (professorial class) that doesn't do much work. And then you basically tell people that if you get a diploma you’re saved, otherwise you go…”— Peter Thiel, bloomberg.com
“Christianity is still possible at any time. It is not tied to any dogma. It requires neither the doctrine of a personal God, nor that of sin, nor that of immortality, nor that of redemption, nor that of faith. Christianity is a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It tell us how to act, not what we…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Try an experiment in reading: for electricity substitute the Holy Spirit, for medium read God, and for the global village of the screen understand the planet united under Rome.”— Andreas Huyssen, amazon.com
“It comes out thus — follow me, Tremens: space is God, and matter is Christ, and time is the Holy Ghost.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“After all, parents can shop around for a psychologist just as some Catholics used to shop for a confessor.”— Allan Bloom, amazon.com
“The notion of a law of nature did not arise out of the practice of science itself. Sometime in the seventeenth century, it was imported into discourse about science from Christian theology, both directly, and indirectly through mathematics. Originally, laws of nature were understood as God's laws fo…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“There is no essential difference, really, in how it feels to rise as one in joy to sing the praises of the Lord, or to rise as one in joy to sing the praises of the Hail Mary pass, the Immaculate Reception, the Angels, the Saints, the Friars, or the Demon Deacons.”— Hubert Dreyfus, amazon.com
“The opposition between sacred and secular is naive. Contrary to what we think we know, we have never entered into a secular era. The very idea of the secular is religious through and through — Christian really.”— Jacques Derrida, amazon.com