Quotes about Separation
My dear, try to believe we exist when you aren't there. We're independent of you. None of us is like you fancy we are. Perhaps it wouldn't matter much if your thoughts were not so dark, always so dark.
- Graham Greene
The full concept of discipleship includes sharing our faith, leading people to Christ, and helping them to mature in their faith. But somewhere along the line, the church has separated evangelism from discipleship.
- Greg Laurie
Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we.
- Gregory Boyd
The reason God now calls kingdom people to remain separate from the ways of the kingdom-of-the-world is not to isolate them from their culture but to empower them to authentically serve their culture and ultimately win it over to allegiance to Jesus Christ. The reason we are not to be of the world is so we may be for the world.
- Gregory Boyd
History teaches that the best way to destroy the Church is to give it political power.
- Gregory Boyd
I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.
- Jerry Falwell
What happens when the Church ceases to stand for truth or to live holy lives separate from the world? When that type of wrong doctrine gains ascendancy, it produces a weak Church so contaminated with spiritual sickness that very little power remains in it.
- Rick Renner
2 Corinthians 6:17). We are called to come out from the catacombs of intimidation, as well as from the defilement of the world — and to stand as beacons of God's truth, regardless of opposition or backlash.
- Rick Renner
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
- Rick Warren
Whenever communities, families, nations, churches are divided, we sniff out the diabolic.
- Robert Barron
Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."
- Robert Brault
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.
- Robert Brault