Faith Freedom Quotes

There is no compulsion in religion.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and his compulsion is our liberation.

It is and has of long time been our constant sense and opinion that conscience ought not to be constrained, nor people forced in matters of religion.

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty.

Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.

Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.

Freedom in matters of religion was bought at a price—and for some courageous persons in the past, the cost was high.

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.

We not only need religious friendly democracy, but also democracy friendly religion.

I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.

Jesus was the First American.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I'm going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

No student should be forced to choose between following her faith and enjoying the benefits of a public education.

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

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.

I have deep sympathy with the hundreds of my constituents who fear that legislation for same-sex marriage will profoundly encroach - although this may be unintended - on their right to live according to their faith.

Religion wasn't imposed on me.

There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

I still describe myself as a Christian, and my love of God and my relationship with God is fundamental, but its manifestations in my life and the practices of it are constantly changing. I find incredible freedom in my faith.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.