Religion...

"The historical religions have the tendency to become
ends in themselves and,

as it were, to put themselves
in God's place,

and, in fact,

there is nothing that is
so apt to obscure the face of God as a religion.



Martin Buber
in Rosalie Maggio
_The Journey Inward: Quotations for the Soul_
NY: Barnes & Noble, 2001 (1997), p. 170