Church and State Relations Quotes

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Clergymen should not get involved with politics.

I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

God doesn't belong in politics.

I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.