Quotes about State

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.

Only in a state of disconnection do we suffer and struggle. The divine intention is for every human being to enjoy unlimited success.

The phrase 'separation of church and state,' which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America must never have a state religion, not that the state be indifferent to religion.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

But you know, General, Jesus never came to establish a government upon the people by force. He did not even talk about political systems. He came to rule in the hearts of people, and not by the establishment of political power. He asks to live in you, not to control your state.

Where were you born? On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered. No, no. In what state were you born? In a state of innocence.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural.

To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ. As human persons, body and soul, are incorporated into the performance of Christ's corpus verum, they resist the state's ability to define what is real through the mechanism of torture.22

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

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.