20 quotes found
“Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith. Its superstition.”
“Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.”
“In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.”
“Since much of American taxes prior to 1763 went to support the local clergy, one humorist suggested the opportunity to vote on that. If the minister was turned out, he could open a tavern and preac...”
“He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.”
“This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.”
“Liberals and conservatives tend to view the economy in purely materialistic terms. They make growth, security, and prosperity ends in themselves. They exalt enlightened self-interest. They tell us ...”
“The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains ...”
“Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and...”
“The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.”
“We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.”
“When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay”
“there was a common understanding that religion generally served the powerful, who manipulated the words of the gods and prophets to justify their greed and lust for power. Yet Christianity comes in...”
“The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and no...”
“Throughout history the cross stands as a symbol of protest and revolt; protest against all claims, whether by religious or political power, to absolute unquestioning control over human minds and bo...”
“the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not kn...”
“Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any traditional sense, was relegated to the private sphere with no hold over public life. There are many...”
“Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.”
“Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.”
