Francis Schaeffer Quotes

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermeddle with religion

Religious freedom must include the right to influence public policy within the bounds of liberal norms.

I’m a Christian Citizen exercising my Constitutional Rights

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

The greatest achievement ever made in the cause of human progress is the total and final separation of church and state. If we had nothing else to boast of, we could lay claim with justice that first among the nations we of this country made it an article of organic law that the relations between man and his Maker were a private concern, into which other men have no right to intrude.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights.

We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power.