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Calvi was sobbing. This couldn't be! A moment ago the Pope was healthy, smiling. How could His Holiness be no longer? Only a month into his papacy! — Peter J. Tanous

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy — Martin Luther

Phrased it. The state sends him to prison, and the church gives you an apology in the — Danielle Steel

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system. — Charles Bukowski

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

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check. — Jeffrey Toobin

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way. — Al Gore

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors. — Felix Frankfurter

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line. — Eric Williams

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

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them? — Gunter Grass

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes. — Ron Suskind

Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine — Martin Luther

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

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious. — John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. — Ronald Reagan

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

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under. — Ronald Reagan

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning. — Saadi

The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue. — Samuel Alito

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. — George Washington

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

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

What if the Church and the State
Are the mob that howls at the door!
Wine shall run thick to the end,
Bread taste sour. — William Butler Yeats

Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility. — Henry Chadwick

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

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

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

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw

Separation of church and state' meant freedom to worship, not freedom from worship. — Larry Schweikart

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

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

Forget the state concerns
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. — Michael Tanner

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either. — Mahatma Gandhi

A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society. — Rick Warren

Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder. — John Paul Warren

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

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay — John Taliaferro

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church. — Ernest Hemingway,

Demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever. — Michelangelo Signorile

Since God will have us leave father and mother for his sake, certainly he will have us leave lords (governors) for his sake. — Martin Luther

The promise of a social gospel was for Luther an irrelevant and ultimately irrelevant and ultimately cruel delusion. — Andrew Pettegree

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason. — Richard M. Weaver

The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state. — W. A. Criswell

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan. — Joyce Meyer

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model. — Jasmine Guy

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

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself. — Russell Kirk

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state. — Sean Hannity

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God. — George F. Will

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. — Lynn Lavner

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

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony. — Josiah Warren

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. — Robert A. Heinlein

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context. — Russell D. Moore

Church and state are, and must remain, separate. — Ronald Reagan

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. — James Russell Lowell

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. — James K. Polk

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. — Thomas Paine

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

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building. — James Russell Lowell

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. — Thomas Paine

By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom. — Conan O'Brien

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

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power. — Edward Kennedy

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

The unholy alliance of religion and politics collaborated in finding Jesus guilty. — Eugene H. Peterson

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

It may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace. — Abraham Kuyper

The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine. — Sharron Angle

Since the dawn of time, warring combatants have regularly reached for what support they could find to nerve their own side for battle. — Mark A. Noll

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

The separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government. — Anna Quindlen

Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry. — Harold Bloom

There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America. — David Barton