The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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 a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
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.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
