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“Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance.”

People Action Church Common Opinion Class Danger Enjoyed Ruthless Heresy Renaissance Bourgeois Interference Suppression Inquisition Aristocratic

Book:Men of Destiny (Ppr)

Source: Men of Destiny (Ppr)

“In my opinion, the greatest sin in the church of Jesus Christ in this generation is ignorance of the Word of God. Many times I have heard a church officer say, "Well I don't know much about the Bible, but..." and then he gives his opinion, which often actually contradicts the Word of God! Why doesn't he know much about the Bible? These things were written aforetime for our learning. God wants you to know His Word.”

Knows Want Giving Wells Jesus Christ Church Sin Opinion Written Generations Heard Ignorance Jesus Christ Officers Word Of God This Generation

Author:J. Vernon McGee

“A believing man will be a zealous man. Faith makes a man zealous. Faith shows itself by zeal. Not by zeal for a party or a system or an opinion; but by zeal for Christ - zeal for His church - zeal for the carrying on of His work on earth.”

Men Believe Shows Earth Christ Church Party Opinion Zeal Carrying On Zealous

Author:Horatius Bonar

“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.”

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.”

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Author:Francis Schaeffer

“If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.”

Ifs Men Church Opinion Pieces Window Observation Altars

Book:Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Source: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

“Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.”

“In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.”

Long Church Opinion Struggle Presses Fierce Martyr Struggle For Freedom

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.”

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Author:James K. Polk

“If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.”

Ifs Giving Whole Church Opinion Authority Saint Deny Graves Occasions Faithful Penalties Scandal Giver Heresy Mock Liable Heretic Unbelievers

Author:Pope Benedict XIV

“When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.”

Trying Government Church Opinion Gay Gay Marriage

Author:Rand Paul

“I have no respect for the right-to-life position. But when you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion. The Catholic Church may espouse its opinion on abortion to the members of its congregation. But they are in violation of separation of church and state when they try to proselytize their abortion politics on people who are not Catholics.”

“The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography

“The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.”

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Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf