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.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

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.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

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

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

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.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

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.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

God does not play dice.

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.

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.

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

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

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

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Our God is a forgiving God.

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.

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

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

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

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?

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

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

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

My message is that God is a good God.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

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

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

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.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.