Quotes about Separation

When the Christian brings the standards of Jesus Christ to bear upon life in a material and secular world, it is often resented. Because the moral and spiritual demands of Jesus Christ are so high, they often set the Christian "apart.

In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.

For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

Only God's thoughts, or love, is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we're actually not thinking at all: we're hallucinating.

When the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you. But you do not belong to the world. I have brought you out of the world and that is why it hates you.

There was no life above the surface anyway.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The pulpit elevates the clergy to a position of prominence. True to its meaning, it puts the preacher at center "stage"—separating and placing him high above God's people.

We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19). We find freedom as we are touched by that first love. For it is that love that will break us away from our alienation and separation. It is a love that can soothe our compulsions to hoard and pretend we can organize the future. It is a love that allows us to love others.