"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost." ― Charles Caleb Colton Topic(s): Religion More From Charles Caleb Colton "Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds." "There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool." "No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health." More In Religion "Religion, you can’t a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don’t believe."― Dennis Potter "The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God."― William Ames "The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."― John Updike