“If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.”

— Albert Einstein

Reply to a Roman Catholic student urging him to pray to Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and convert to Christianity.
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein's God (1997), p. 88

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