It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.