The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be... accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention--on a landsca...pe, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God--that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying.... The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it suppl...ies a sanction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual lib...eration, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a co...ncentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We ...are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come now, let us go and be dumb. Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum. Let us live in cor...ners, and do chores, and suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love the Lord. Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being, and so diving, bring up out of secular darkness, the sublimities of the moral constitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame an...d secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »