Politics Religion Quotes

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

When you bring God into politics, very strange things happen.

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

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

He declared frequently that he would do anything to save the Union, and among the many things he did was the partial concealment of his individual religious opinions.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

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.