If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England. – Paul Harris
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. – Paul Harris
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. – Paul Harris
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. – Desmond M. Tutu, “Religious Human Rights and the Bible”