Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.
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.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.