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.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
