Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
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.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
