You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
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.
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 have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
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.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
