Separation Quotes

• The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Church
  • Judging
  • Metaphor

• Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Men
  • Grief
  • Loss

• Religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Church
  • Religion
  • Teach

• How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

  

  Gabrielle Hamilton
  • Mother
  • Effort
  • Separation

• Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

  

  David Duke
  • Black
  • Government
  • Goal

• Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Reality
  • Consciousness
  • Separation

• I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

  

  Elisabeth Eaves
  • Hate
  • Choices
  • Accounts

• Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.

  

  Will Tuttle
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Humility

• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Peace
  • Church
  • Lying

• There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

  

  Ricardo Lagos
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Government

• Keep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are inseparable from each other, and then you will understand what is meant by it. Observe now that I say the Father is other distinct, the Son is other, and the Spirit is other. This statement is wrongly understood by every uneducated or perversely disposed individual, as if it meant diversity and implied by that diversity a separation of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

  

  Tertullian
  • Diversity
  • Rule
  • Understood

• It may well be more of a prelude to civil war than a step forward. Rather than an inclusive document, it is more a recipe for separation based on Shiite and Kurdish privilege.

  

  Anthony H. Cordesman
  • War
  • Separation
  • Prelude

• We came out of spring believing that they each had a scrimmage or two that they were good at and one or two that they made some mistakes at. Each of them did that and in our mind there was not a separation going into Thursday's practice. I feel it's unfortunate that so many of you in the media have ranked them and have put them in place so that players have to hear that the entire summer. It's really not fair.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Mistakes
  • Media
  • Players

• Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

  

  Alison Goodman
  • Grow
  • Separation
  • Doubts

• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation, then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Feel
  • Lovers

• The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Church
  • Common
  • Aliens

• Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.

  

  Amir Taheri
  • Business
  • Religion
  • Separation

• True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Action
  • Relation
  • Individuality

• One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

  

  Ray Stannard Baker
  • Interested
  • Regulations
  • Railroad

• 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.

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • Church
  • State
  • Separation

• 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
  • Together
  • Relationship
  • Caring

• God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Separation

• I think one of the great strengths of Americans United is that it has such diversity. That it has not only people who have no religious belief, but lots of people who do and who take that belief very seriously. And I think that provides us with a great opportunity to talk about the separation of church and state. There are plenty of other groups, and some of them are quite good at what they do, but they also have an agenda of non-theism, but we don't have, you might say, a theology. We just have a commitment to the Constitution.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Opportunity
  • Church
  • Diversity

• What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Human
  • Genius

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