Quotes about Separation

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits.

As Christians, we are not to get our worlds mixed up... We are not to mingle with the world, but we are to witness to the world.

As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associate with and love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. This distinction can be achieved only by a close walk with Christ, by constant prayer, and by seeking the Holy Spirit's leadership every hour of the day. We are in the world, but the world is not to be in us.

While separation does not mean disengagement from the world, there are certain activities and places that God clearly wants us to avoid not only to protect ourselves from spiritual harm but so that the witness we have will not be tarnished.

Those who believe [in Christ] are expected to be different from the world... they are members of a new society.

When the Christian brings the standards of Jesus Christ to bear upon life in a material and secular world, it is often resented. Because the moral and spiritual demands of Jesus Christ are so high, they often set the Christian "apart.

In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.

For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.