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.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

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

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

All religions have been made by men.

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.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

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

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

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

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Sevier County is a great area.

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.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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?

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

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

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.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

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.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

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

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

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.

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.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

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

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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?

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

God always wants us to be growing.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

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

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

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

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

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.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.