You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

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.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

Devotion is a social force.

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.