If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls,
without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without
schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth
not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.--PLUTARCH.
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,
Needs only to be seen to be admired.
--COWPER.
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really
made the principle of it instead of faith.--SHELLEY.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the
private school, supported entirely by private contributions; keep the
Church and the State forever apart.--U.S. GRANT.
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite
pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.--GUTHRIE.
All belief which does not render more happy, more free, more loving,
more active, more calm, is, I fear, an erroneous and superstitious
belief.--LAVATER.
Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God
can never be true to man.--LORD BURLEIGH.
A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle.--FROM THE
LATIN.
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to
mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and
solemn faces.--WALTER SCOTT.
Nowhere would there be consolation, if religion were not.--JACOBI.
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