Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

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

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Christians are not limited to any church.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

God to me is love.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

I serve God.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s – military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

My message is that God is a good God.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.