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.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
God is not a diversion.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
