The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.