We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
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.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
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.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
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.
