Separation Quotes - Page 9

• I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

  Desmond Tutu

  Leadership, Wisdom, Class

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• 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.

  Al Smith

  Believe, Exercise, Men

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• The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.

  Katherine Harris

  Teacher, Lying, Mean

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• Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

  Tim LaHaye

  Scary, Church, Why Not

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• Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy line of separation of faith: to talk together, to study together, to pray together and ultimately to sing together His Holy name.

  Joe Lieberman

  Break Through, Names, Scary

  "Lieberman and Religion Seem to Be an Easy Mix". Speech at the Fellowship Chapel Church, Detroit, articles.latimes.com. August 28, 2000.

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

  Star Parker

  Believe, Scary, Church

  "Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture". Book by Barry Hankins, 2002.

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• There shouldn't be a separation of any religion in any way. Unfortunately, through the centuries there have been problems from the "My God is better than your God" mentality.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Way, Problem, Century

  "Kevin Sorbo on playing John Calvin in “Let the Lion Roar,” plans for a “God’s Not Dead” sequel and his support of the “Gosnell” movie". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.

  Judith Viorst

  Sweet, Children, Parent

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• The sea
  Severs not only lands but also selves.

  Wallace Stevens

  Self, Sea, Land

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.30, Vintage

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• Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Pity, Lord

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• Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.

  Paul Tillich

  Faith, Doubt, Essentials

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

  Jean Racine

  Goodbye, Time, Forever

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• It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Kings, Pain, Government

  Thomas Hobbes, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1999). “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives”, p.162, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Food, Book, Machines

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• I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Independence, Spirit

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• Long hours
  trail in their purple
  and long years are lost
  in just this moment
  while our souls are near,
  our mouths separate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Years, Purple

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Education, Money, Work

  Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Church

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• It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, School

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• The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

  Warren E. Burger

  Christian, Religious, Tolerance

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

  Mickey Edwards

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

  Nat Hentoff

  Christian, Religious, Doors

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• The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Wall

  James Davison Hunter (1992). “Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America”, p.262, Basic Books

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