Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Devotion is a social force.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Prayer is a turning to God.
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.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
