I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
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.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
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.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
