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.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

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

We are not at war against Islam.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Theology is unnecessary.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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.

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.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

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

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.