C. S. Lewis Quotes

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to practice faith or not, and those who believe are free and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

It is no part of the of the business of government to compose official prayers.

We must not, under the pretext of secularism, chase God out of every public expression in society.

Congress shall not make any law infringing the rights of conscience, or establishing any religious sect or society Congress shall make no law establishing one religious sect or society in preference to others. Congress shall make no law establishing any particular denomination of religion in preference to another

Religious freedom must include the right to influence public policy within the bounds of liberal norms.

The Constitution forbids states from banning all religion from public spaces and from making churches the ghettos of religion where all manifestations of faith are kept separate from public life. Religious people have an equal right to participate in the public square and to have their contributions to Oklahoma history and society recognized.

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power.

Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.