Clergyman's

“Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.”
– Clive Bell

“Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.”
– Jurgen Habermas

“Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.”
– Edward F. Halifax