Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul / politics does the same thing for the body.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted