[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species.
From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.
Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.
We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.
There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.
Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away--each a small separation, a small distancing.
Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.
There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception. . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
When one is genuinely ready, Truth finds a way to introduce itself inside the heart and ends the feeling of separation.
An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against. . . . . . Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. . . . . . . . religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.