There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
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.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
