#separation

They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought. They knew the terrible history of the church too well to place in her keeping or in the keeping of her God the sacred rights of man. They intended that all should have the right to worship or not to worship that our laws should make no distinction on account of creed. They intended to found and frame a government for man and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality of all to prevent the few from governing the many and the many from persecuting and destroying the few. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#politics #religion #separation-of-church-and-state #religion

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#religion #secularism #separation-of-church-and-state #state #theocracy

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation. ↗

— William Ames

#effectual #here #inward #meaning #often

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#between #call #church #conscience #does

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#inspiration #like #long #many #reunion

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#food #medicine #pain #separation #some

Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#love #safety #separation #love

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#love #separation #weariness #love

You know that saying about how you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? I already did know what I had, and now that she’s gone, I know even more. ↗

— A.S. King

#lbgt #loneliness #love #separation #love

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever. -Tōshirō Hitsugaya (Bleach) ↗

— Tite Kubo

#toushiro-hitsugaya #separation