Monopolies are just as injurious to religion as to trade. With
competition religions preserve their strength, but they will never again
flourish in their original glory until religious freedom, or, in other
words, free trade among the gods, is introduced.--_Heinrich Heine._
A religion giving dark views of God, and infusing superstitious fear of
innocent enjoyment, instead of aiding sober habits, will, by making men
abject and sad, impair their moral force, and prepare them for
intemperance as a refuge from depression or despair.--_Channing._
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.--_J.
Petit Senn._
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really
made the principle of it instead of faith.--_Shelley._
The ship retains her anchorage yet drifts with a certain range, subject
to wind and tide. So we have for an anchorage the cardinal truths of the
gospel.--_Gladstone._