Roy Moore Quotes

Although both Church and State are ordinances of God, yet they must not be commingled …. Accordingly we condemn the policy of those who would have the power of the State employed "in the interest of the Church" and who thus turn the Church into a secular dominion; as also of those who, aiming to govern the State by the Word of God, seek to turn the State into a Church.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

The church state-wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

We early freed ourselves from the incubus of a State Church.

if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

To say that religion cannot stand without a state establishment is not only contrary to fact (as has been proved already) but is a contradiction in phrase.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

The past history of the Christian Church should be a solemn warning to us never to permit an alliance to be formed between the priesthood and the civil magistracy—between church and state powers.

[The line] cannot be too strongly drawn between church and state.

T]he prevailing opinion in Europe, England not excepted, has been that religion could not be preserved without the support of government nor government be supported without an established religion that there must be at least an alliance of some sort between them. It remained for North America to bring the great and interesting subject to a fair, and finally a decisive test

I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together

The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State

The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Whether we like it or not, religion and government policy are unavoidably linked.

Much mischief and grief will come from any alliances, holy or otherwise, between organized religious groups and the state.

Religion is too important an aspect of human life to be prostituted to politics, just as politics is too important a part of human life to be enslaved to religion.