Abraham Lincoln on Religion
1809–1865 United States
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When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truths announced in the Holy Scriptures, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort which reconciles them to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces. It is not the kind to get to heaven on.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to Infidelity.
Misattributed
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Misattributed to Lincoln in Mark Gold (1998)