Separation Quotes - Page 13

• And I strongly support the faith-based initiative that we're proposing, because I don't believe it violates the line between the separation of church and state, and I believe it's going to make America a better place.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, America

  White House News Conference, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 2001.

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• Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level.

  Tony Gaskins

  People, Levels, Next

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2015

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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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• I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Doctrine, Politics

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• 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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• 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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• Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Unity, Neutrality

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• I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

  Phil Collins

  Years, Hotel Lobby, Half

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• Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

  Christopher Lasch

  Spiritual, Religious, Religion And Politics

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• Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.42

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• I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Long, Identity, Cricket

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• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Beautiful, Party

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 22, 2013

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• The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Government, Church

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Caring, Together, Bricks

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• I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

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• Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

  John Tyler

  Religious, Men, Presidential

  Funeral oration for Thomas Jefferson, July 11, 1826.

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• The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.

  John Tyler

  Religious, Law, Presidential

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• As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or religion can be supported by the U.S. Government. We maintain freedom of religion so that an American can either worship in the church of his choice or choose to go to no church at all.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Government, Choices, Presidential

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• We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Presidential, Church

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• Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a fast day, he feared to 'disturb the security which religion now enjoys in this country, in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.'

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Country, Government, Names

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• We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Religious, Mean, Heart

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• Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

  Frank Field

  Race, Political, Democracy

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