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.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

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.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.