Separation Quotes

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words.

When there is spirit and light, the dark forces of whatever is hidden and suppressed - like hatred and separation - become more powerful.

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

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.

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

I feel like everyone kind of knew someone, like 6 degrees of separation. In Hollywood that is very common.

There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?

Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks.

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.

I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.

Differentiation is how ONE becomes many while remaining ONE. Differentiation is not separation.

Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

It is difficult to single out one sport over another, but if I have to name one in my separation suit, it will undoubtedly be football.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!

The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen.

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.