A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

I believe in the power of weakness.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

No man is infallible.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I believe that all men and women will be saved.

There is no one true church.

I believe that sex is good and so is the body.

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.

I'm a Buddhist.

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.