Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of 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.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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.
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.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
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.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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.
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.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.