A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

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.

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.

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.

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

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

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.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.