Not exactly a pithy quote, but if you are unfamiliar with this email /blog, I have found it quite interesting:
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…where religion stops, we have the deep awareness of being with God. Religion ends because God is present. Everything is earthly because God has been seen in stark reality. Wherever one needs that holy, secluded, special world that is called religion, there one cannot be sure that God is near, there one needs a substitute - namely, religion. Where God is a self-evident, supremely clear, all-penetrating reality, there he can be seen in all things, can be felt in all things, can be honored in all things, can be served in all things. The world is truly his temple; therefore the special temple falls by the wayside. All people automatically become priests; therefore a special priesthood is not need. All days become holy; therefore special holy days are not needed. Every deed becomes an act of worship; therefore worship services are no longer needed. Everything becomes holy; therefore nothing remains that is specially holy or unholy. Religion tumbles before God.
That is the revolution of Jesus, the immesasurable, still listtle understood revolution. To be sure, the religion of his time understood it, and the result was the cross. Many more crosses will be raised before it is clearly understood. But precisely here lies the endless drawing power of Jesus for all human souls, pious and “godless.”
-Leonhard Ragaz
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I wonder what is the source for your excerpt and also if it is the same Leonard Ragaz as mentioned here:
On New Year’s Eve of 1933 a train carrying a single passenger crossed the border into Switzerland. The passenger was the German-Jewish poet, philosopher, and literary critic Margarete Susman (1872-1966). Reflecting on the reasons for her departure, Susman later recalled: “When I left … my true Heimat I did so above all as a German who could not bear this new Germany. The Jewish destiny was not apparent in its entire horror at the time.”1Sixty-one years old at the time of emigration, Susman was granted asylum in Switzerland. Soon, she would find a spiritual home among the religious socialists that had begun coalescing around the figure of the Protestant theologian Leonhard Ragaz (1868-1945) almost three decades earlier.2
https://academic.oup.com/leobaeck/article-abstract/59/1/141/984173?redirectedFrom=fulltext