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.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
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
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
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.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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.
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.
