If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
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.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
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.
