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.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

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

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

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.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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

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

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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.

Sevier County is a great area.

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.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

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

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.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

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

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

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.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.