Split a piece of wood and I am there.

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.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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.

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.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

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

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

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.