Amy Coney Barrett Quotes

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.

It is our responsibility to speak on social and moral issues for the instruction of the church and its members.

Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal battles in this country. It has succeeded in passing a number of what are called 'religious exemption laws.'

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.

The Supreme Court is a menace to the welfare of the nation.

You must legislate morality.

The [English] constitution does not allow reasons of state to influence our [the judges] judgement. God forbid that it should. We must not regard political consequences, however formidable they may be.

Our Executive never interferes in the discipline, doctrine, or regulations of any religious society. They were not consulted nor took part in the appointment of our Bishops, or the Church of England, or Methodists.

Bishops and priests should live according to the canons and should teach others to do likewise

Historically, both religious and secular laws originate from the same source

Religious institutions ought to have something to say about the normative values of society.

The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed incessantly … We have to find a new balance otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and the fragrance of the Gospel.

If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made.

I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,' and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, 'No, we can't do that, Mr. President.'

Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge should decide cases based on a desire to reach a certain outcome.

I would never impose my own personal convictions upon the law.