I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion.… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
I believe in a higher power. I wasn't baptized or raised with an organized religion, but it's definitely interesting. Part of my… — Hilary Swank 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
“people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own… — Prem Prakash Copy Share Image
“While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that… — Hyde 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
“It’s hard to maintain faith when life gives you such pain and organized religion seems to have been co-opted by the cruel… — J.D. Trafford Copy Share Image
Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals)… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world… — James Welch Copy Share Image
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all… — Ian Mckellen 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
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
“The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“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 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 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
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
