We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
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.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
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.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
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.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
