“I’m beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and his kingdom are often revealed off the beaten… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the True Self--and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)--will always live in the backwaters of any empire… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I have my own spiritual thing, but am not part of an organized religion. I think religion is very special and individual… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Organized religion is responsible for the brainwashing of millions of young children too young to know the difference between reality and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
I kind of lost my sense of organized religion and became more spiritual from the experience. I would walk in the woods… — Chuck Panozzo Copy Share Image
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I remember Bob saying, 'Some people who believe in God are good, and some people who believe in God are not good.… — Leslie Berlin Copy Share Image
“I have my issues with organized religion and cafeteria-style religion, picking and choosing certain dogmas that apply or seem ethical while ignoring… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in… — Hunter Parrish Copy Share Image
I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the… — Sonya Renee Taylor Copy Share Image
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Angels is a tough word, because it is so involved with organized religion and everything else. I do know, absolutely, from my… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that… — Danny Masterson Copy Share Image
