“It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful...” — Mattie Stepanek Quote

“It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.”

“I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.”

“Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.”

“I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.”

“Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.”

“There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.”

“Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.”

“I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.”

“I respect and believe in all religions.”

“People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, 'Oh, he must be very religious'. I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people.”

“England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.”

“I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.”