What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside, were it really counts?
Er bestimmte für euch wegen der Religion dasselbe, womit Er Noah beauftragte, und was Wir dir (o Mohammed) offenbarten, und womit Wir Abraham und Moses und Jesus beauftragten: Haltet die Religion aufrecht, und spaltet euch nicht darin!
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime
Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity, let the blackguard Paine say what he will; it is resignation to God, it is goodness itself to man.
Where do we find a precept in the Gospel requiring Ecclesiastical Synods? Convocations? Councils? Decrees? Creeds? Confessions? Oaths? Subscriptions? and whole cart-loads of other trumpery that we find religion incumbered with in these days?
As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen … it is declared … that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
