If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.—­Plutarch.

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,
Needs only to be seen to be admired. 
—­Cowper.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.—­Shelley.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions; keep the Church and the State forever apart.—­U.S.  Grant.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.—­Guthrie.

All belief which does not render more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, an erroneous and superstitious belief.—­Lavater.

Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God can never be true to man.—­Lord Burleigh.

A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle.—­From the Latin.

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.—­Walter Scott.

Nowhere would there be consolation, if religion were not.—­Jacobi.

A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scriptures describe in such terse but terrific language, as living “without God in the world.”  Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his happiness, and away, far, far away, from the purposes of his creation.—­Webster.

All who have been great and good without Christianity, would have been much greater and better with it.—­Colton.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.—­Douglas Jerrold.

Wonderful! that the Christian religion, which seems to have no other object than the felicity of another life, should also constitute the happiness of this.—­Montesquieu.

Pour the balm of the Gospel into the wounds of bleeding nations.  Plant the tree of life in every soil, that suffering kingdoms may repose beneath its shade and feel the virtue of its healing leaves, till all the kindred of the human family shall be bound together in one common bond of amity and love, and the warrior shall be a character unknown but in the page of history.—­Thomas raffles.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.—­Colton.