God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

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.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

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

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

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 believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.