I am, therefore there is a God.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence