Top 1200 Church And State Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.

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

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I could play at church.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

Everyone in the United States is so intense about maintaining a separation between Church and State when the real concern should be about keeping a separation between Corporations and State--because in America (and most of the rest of the Western World, for that matter) economics is the real religion.

Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion;.... leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.

Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now.

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.

There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.

You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church.

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

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

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

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

Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is what the Church is for. When the Church is that, and does that, it flourishes.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend.

It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.

The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.