The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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.
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.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
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.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Prayer is a turning to God.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
