Atheism Quote by Lyman Beecher

“a closer walk with God than any man he had known. Davenport went from place to place without invitation, and depending upon impulses and…

— Frank G. Beardsley

“In Connecticut we had freedom of religion so you could belong to any church you wanted, unless you were a Papist.”

— James Lincoln Collier

The Founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around.

— Mike Johnson

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of…

— James Madison

The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and…

— Steve Coogan

Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their…

— Edd Doerr

“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where they have…

— Isaac Backus

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality -…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed…

— Matthew Henry

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from…

— Anna Quindlen

“A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.”

— Eric Metaxas