{"quotes":[{"text":"One major teaching of the Protestants that we the Protestants of today must go back to is the fact that the European Protestants did not emphasize five fold ministry the way we do today. Today our teaching on the five fold ministry only tends to view only those called to the five fold ministry as those called to be ministers, while the rest of the congregation is just viewed as laity who just go to secular jobs.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["back","european","fact","five-fold","go","jobs","laity","major","ministry","must","protestants","secular","teaching","today","viewed","we"],"id":16132,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.","author":"Ulrich Beck","tags":["society","modernity","secular "],"id":25721,"author_id":"Ulrich+Beck"},{"text":"Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","bible","ignorance","secular","skepticism"],"id":25948,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.","author":"Richard M. Rorty","tags":["atheism","atheist","civilization","descendants","future","global-civilization","hope","idealism","law","love","perfection","secular","secularist","sense-of-holy","utopia"],"id":98098,"author_id":"Richard+M.+Rorty"},{"text":"Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness.","author":"the law determines his humanity.","tags":["herman dooyeweerd","roots of western culture: pagan","secular","and christian options"],"id":101303,"author_id":"the+law+determines+his+humanity."},{"text":"—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?","author":"James Joyce","tags":["absurdity","atheism","catholicism","faith","funny","humor","illogical-incoherent","protestantism","religion","respect","secular"],"id":102595,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","christ","christian","hypocrisy","jesus","judging","judgmental","secular","self-righteousness","world"],"id":152906,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ['What Libraries Can (Still) Do,' The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].","author":"James Gleick","tags":["sacred","secular"],"id":162392,"author_id":"James+Gleick"},{"text":"ITS nomimal without all on transfer of regard, that weight of a measure of lines cannot be equal in comparison. The want of privacy is a need of personality not character. Only through devotional love not modernity can you coolect the past, present and future. Timeless is not what you think or hear. Patience is not any big reveal. Never see make how all free?","author":"Robert Wesley Miller","tags":["accountability","forgiveness","free","generations","hardship","history","home","love","modernity-revolution","navigation","secular","trade","tranference","transfer"],"id":194609,"author_id":"Robert+Wesley+Miller"},{"text":"There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bigotry","conformity","culture","cynicism","deep","development","exclusion","experience","exploration","funny","funny-but-true","humor","ignorance","ignorant","intelligence","introvert","isolation","knowledge","learning","life","living","naive","narrow-mindedness","notion","opinion","originality","parenting","people","popular","popular-opinion","positivity","preparation","rebel","secular","shallow","society","solitude","status-quo","teaching","travel","unique","vacation","wisdom","world"],"id":197263,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}