Unthought — The (usually unstated) presuppositions that undergird an account of secularity and the decline of religious practice.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Rapid collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To be nowhere is to let oneself be.

I love the gym; I love basketball. I'm really passionate about it.

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

Indeed baptism is a vow a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that exists in the world.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quite questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

I never think about what people will think when they watch me on screen.

I think commitment is very important, particularly for me.