“I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.

I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize.

It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.

The disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.