"I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian?"
January 1, 1970
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso%2C_14th_Dalai_Lama