Quotes About Separation

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.

I don't bring religion into the square.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The bible divides mankind, god will decide our fate.

It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.

You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same, " I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.