Rod Parsley Quotes

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

The profound influence of religion on American politics is vital, but it is best when indirect: on the morals, habits, and souls of individual Americans; on the political climate and the principals that should guide policy, rather than on specific policies themselves…

Religion and the public liberty of a people are interwoven, and cannot exist separately.

Religion and politics are inseparable. Without religion, political science can create only despotism or anarchy.

Religion must be disciplined by democracy.

Frankly, Christians have not always made good presidents.

I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.