When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
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.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
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.