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.

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.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

My message is that God is a good God.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

London is a roost for every bird.

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

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

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.

God is everywhere.

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

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

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.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

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.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

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

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

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

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

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.

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.

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!

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I’m a Christian by choice.

I’m an atheist.

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

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

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

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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

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.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

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.

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

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

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.

God to me is love.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

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.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.