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.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

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.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

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

I just want to lobby for God.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I answer only to God.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

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

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

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

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

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.

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

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

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

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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