Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

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

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

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

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.