Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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 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.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.