Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
