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We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.