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.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

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

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

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.

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.

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

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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?

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.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

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

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 believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

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.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

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

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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?

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.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

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.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

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

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.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

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

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.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

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

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

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

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.

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.

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.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

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

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

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

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

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

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.

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

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.