Churches Quote by Jim Wallis

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

— Shane Claiborne

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

— John F. Kennedy

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape…

— Albert Schweitzer

The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is…

— Pope Benedict XVI

We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The state is made for man, not man for the state… That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we…

— Albert Einstein

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.

— Anonymous

“Only a church free of any outside domination can be the conscience of society and, as Washington pastor Myron Augsburger has written, “hold government…

— Charles W. Colson

“If the State is to have reality as the ethical, self-conscious realization of spirit, it must be distinguished from the form of authority and…

— Karl Marx