There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
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.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
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.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
