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.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
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.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
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.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
