Pastoral Resources

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

Rights come from God, not from government.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.