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 moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

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.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

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.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

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

Christians are not limited to any church.

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

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

Sevier County is a great area.

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

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

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

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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

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

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

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

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

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.

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

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

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.

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.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

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.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

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

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.

God does not play dice.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

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

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

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

Our God is a forgiving God.

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.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

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.

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

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.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.