William Penn Religion is the opiate of the people. Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon. Benjamin Disraeli I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul. The whole history of civilizatin is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, bu to be better than yourself.
Religion is relative to the individual.
Emerson All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true teligion is a spontaneous thing, as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice. Chapin Let us accept different forms of religion among men, as we accept different languages, wherein there is still but one human nature expressed. Every genius has most power in his own language, and every heart in its own religion.