Religious Separation Quotes

That there's no link between Islam and Christianity and Judaism. There wouldn't be Islam if there wasn't Christianity or Judaism, because it's all one long line of revelation. Seeing it from that point of view it makes you ask yourself why Muslims sometimes separate themselves from that large family that leads to Abraham and, even before that, to Adam. The only answer is that we're conditioned to do it by thinking, Hey, I do things better than he does.

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

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

Western governments have completely separated Islam from politics. They have cut off its head and given the rest to us.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

… hedge or wall of Separation between the Garden of the Church and the Wilderness of the World

The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesn't really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam.

From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

The First Amendment’s purpose was to create a complete and permanent separation of the spheres of religious activity and civil authority by comprehensively forbidding every form of public aid or support for religion.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

Turkey alone [among the Moslem nations] has formally enacted the separation of church and the state.

There shouldn't be a separation of any religion in any way. Unfortunately, through the centuries there have been problems from the "My God is better than your God" mentality.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.

To those who have separated themselves from the Church, I say, my dear friends, there is yet a place for you here.

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my religion.

No money of the state shall ever be given or appropriated to any sectarian or religious society or institution.