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title: "17 State Church Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 17 State Church quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best State Church sayings and thoughts."
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> [Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-greene-balch/without-a-common-loyalty-to-either-a-state-or-a-church-they-have/)

[Emily Greene Balch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-greene-balch/)

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> [To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/to-hell-with-the-church-when-it-becomes-a-state-and-the-hell-with-the/)

[Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/)

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> [Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-stark/wherever-you-ve-got-a-state-church-you-have-empty-churches/)

[Rodney Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-stark/)

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> [To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/to-put-it-in-a-few-words-the-true-malice-of-man-appears-only-in-the/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

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> [Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-hart/christians-today-are-forced-to-support-with-their-tax-money-the/)

[Benjamin Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-hart/)

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> [The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasmine-guy/the-state-and-the-church-seldom-approve-of-anything-i-do-i-don-t-need/)

[Jasmine Guy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasmine-guy/)

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> [We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-joshua-heschel/we-worry-a-great-deal-about-the-problem-of-church-and-state-now-what/)

[Abraham Joshua Heschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-joshua-heschel/)

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> [For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-williams/for-me-it-s-church-and-state-not-church-in-state-and-i-really-feel/)

[Eric Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-williams/)

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> [There could be no issue between the Church and the State. The Church, as such, has nothing to do with political affairs.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/there-could-be-no-issue-between-the-church-and-the-state-the-church/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-w-bush/i-fully-understand-it-s-important-to-maintain-the-separation-of/)

[George W. Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-w-bush/)

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> [Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/both-state-and-church-have-as-their-object-actions-as-well-as/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

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> [One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-barker/one-of-the-primary-questions-in-a-state-church-arrangement-is-which/)

[Dan Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-barker/)

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> [We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/we-do-not-want-an-official-state-church-if-ninety-nine-percent-of-the/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/in-my-dreams-is-a-country-where-the-state-is-the-church-and-the/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. \[These are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-of-sourozh/it-seems-to-me-and-i-am-personally-convinced-that-the-church-must/)

[Anthony of Sourozh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-of-sourozh/)

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> [The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-j-eckenrode/the-union-of-church-and-state-put-the-church-under-a-political/)

[H. J Eckenrode](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-j-eckenrode/)

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> [“Children born to-day may see the beginnings of a genuine state church in the Republic, with a hierarchy of live wires and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken-2/children-born-to-day-may-see-the-beginnings-of-a-genuine-state-church/)

[H.L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken-2/)

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                        "text": "It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them. As soon as the Church begins to exercise power, it loses its most profound characteristic which is divine love [i.e.] the understanding of those it is called to save and not to smash...",
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