Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
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.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
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.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
