Quotes About Separation

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'

Happiness can be close by, even if your heart is far away.

With each day that our huge ship was on the ocean, my sense of being further and further away from my loved ones, my home, and my environment grew stronger.

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

God is at home. We are in the far country.