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

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

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.

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