Sermon
Quotes on government
Bring the gospel to life with our extensive collection of sermon quotes. Search by topic (keyword), scripture passage, and more. Looking for a specific author? Learn from the best communicators past and present. Looking for a specific Bible passage? You can search by book and chapter.
Search by topic, scripture, category etc..
27 Results in 41ms
Display
Sorted By
-
Quote
Sunday observance of the Sabbath was the subject of forty-seven acts of Parliament and often debated by American legislators in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -
Quote
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have... -
Quote
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely [in all respects]. -
Quote
But, as the British Constitution is the most subtile organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the... -
Quote
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. -
Quote
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. -
Quote
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the wo... -
Quote
The gospel is not identical with either a conservative or progressive ideology. It will at times correct both. -
Quote
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. -
Quote
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. -
Quote
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -
Quote
Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody -
Quote
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law; and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it. -
Quote
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal control... -
Quote
Our Lord’s Kingdom is not of this world; and most of His people may do their country much more essential service by pleading for it in prayer, than by finding fault with things which they have. -
Quote
Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. -
Quote
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, not under its jurisdiction.’ In a republic of fren, every prejudice, every aspiration, every moral discernment has access to the public squa... -
Quote
Citizens are the bearers of opinion, including opinion shaped by or espousing religious belief, and citizens have equal access to the public square. In this representative democracy, the state is forb... -
Quote
Christianity has always thrived most as a life giving minority, not a political majority. -
Quote
We are all imperfect. we can not expect perfect government. -
Quote
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. -
Quote
The biggest resentment I have is when they say Washington is run like a circus. If only it was so disciplined and organized. -
Quote
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. -
Quote
We receive celebrities simply because they are ‘conservative,’ without asking what they are conserving. If you are angry with the same people we are, you must be one of us. But it would be a tragedy t... -
Quote
When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom. -
Quote
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because i... -
Quote
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Search by Topic
C
Search by Reference