The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
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.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
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, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
