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.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
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.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
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.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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.