“Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul – politics does the same thing for the body.”– Joyce Cary Related Quotes “Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.”– William Robertson Smith “I also don’t have organized religion on Pern. I figured – since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing – that religion was one problem Pern didn’t need.”– Anne McCaffrey “I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion… some places where there’s just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.”– Lionel Richie