When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
Walter Jon WilliamsWorship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
BodhidharmaUnless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
EpictetusYou can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Eckhart TolleThe dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
William Robertson Smith