All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

God has no religion.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

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.

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.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

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.

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.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Devotion is a social force.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

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.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.