Sermon Quotes on Religion And Politics

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Reinhold Niebuhr
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Phillip Yancey
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with p...
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Phillip Yancey
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Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus’ love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It ...
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Patrick Schreiner
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Matthew 22:37-40, Matthew 5:13-16, Genesis 1:27, Luke 10:25-37, 1 Timothy 2:1-2
Christian politics concerns how we integrate our confession that Jesus is Lord with our call to love our neighbors.
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Eugene Cho
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
The crux of our dilemma is that for some Christians, we’ve allowed our politics to inform our theology rather than our theology and worship of the Christ informing our politics.
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Justin Giboney
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Psalm 2:10-11, John 18:36, Matthew 5:13-16, Jeremiah 29:7, Micah 6:8, 1 Samuel 15:22
We can’t separate what we believe in the political arena from who we are in Christ and what obedience to God demands...That said, not every tenet of Christianity should become the law of the state. We...
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Eugene Cho
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
Many Christians are not only passionate about politics but are also involved in politics on some level. And yet, I would argue, at times, we are played by politics. At times, our identities and values...
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Phillip Yancey
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- History
- Religion and Politics
History shows that when the church uses the tools of the world's kingdom, it becomes as ineffectual, or as tyrannical, as any other power structure. And whenever the church has intermingled with t...
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John Wesley
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Matthew 20:25-26, Matthew 23:11-12, Luke 22:26, James 3:14-16, Genesis 41:, 2 Samuel 15:, 1 Kings 21:
The highest offices of the state and church resemble a pyramid whose top is accessible to only two sorts of animals-eagles and reptiles.
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Phillip Yancey
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
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Rich Villodas
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
The Church is not to be found at the ‘center’ of a left/right political world. The Church is to be a species of its own kind, confounding both left and right, and finding its identity from the center ...
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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Leviticus 25:10-17, Deuteronomy 15:7-11, Amos 5:11-15, James 82:, Luke 4:18-19
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervio...
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David Fitch
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The standard account of power says there’s only one kind of power in the world and we, the good people, must get on the right side of it, using it to bring justice into the world. Power is power. It i...
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Kyungsig Samuel Lee
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The ultimate challenge of Jesus' ministry was to go to the city, the city of Jerusalem. This city, which was the center of education, religion, and politics, was also the place where corruption an...
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William Booth
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- Repentance
- Consumer Christianity
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration...
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Michael Wear
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Christians: The crisis is not that you are politically homeless. The crisis is that we ever thought we could make a home in politics at all.
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Benazir Bhutto
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- Power
- Religion
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Michael Wear
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We do not love our neighbor for affirmation, but because we have been loved first. Now is not the time to withdraw, but to refine our intentions and pursue public faithfulness.
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Richard John Neuhaus
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- Government
- Religion and Public Life
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...
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Philip Schaff
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Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God a...
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Abraham Kuyper
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God built into the creation a variety of cultural spheres, such as the family, economics, politics, art, and intellectual inquiry. Each of these spheres has its own proper "business" and nee...
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Jake Meador
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- Politics
When the church, in the name of political power, allies and aligns too much with the current secular left or right, it is sapped of both spiritual power and credibility with nonbelievers. Theologicall...
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Omar Bradley
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount…Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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- America
The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America, equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preservi...
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Alister E. McGrath
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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that ...
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Martin Luther
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- War
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. (1566)
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John Selden
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- Justice
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Zechariah 7:9-10, Micah 6:8, Romans 2:14-15, Proverbs 21:3, Psalm 37:28, Isaiah 33:22, Leviticus 19:15
Equity in law is the same that the spirit is in religion, what everyone pleases to make it: sometimes they go according to conscience, sometimes according to law, sometimes according to the rule of co...
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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- Politics
- Government
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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- Religion
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Robert Andrews Millikan
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- Science and Religion
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.