the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.” — Dan Santos Copy Share Image
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Organized religion a great disappointment. I don't recall Jesus asking for donations or charging a fee when teaching Spirituality. — Wandini Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title “organized religion.” What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?” — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
“The great irony for a man in my position is how little use I have for organized religion. I am essentially a… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing,… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
“To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the… — Wendy Priesnitz Copy Share Image
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds,… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“The Sunday service alone seldom leads people on deeper or even real journeys; we must begin to be honest about this. All… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion. — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents... — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of… — Justin Broadrick 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
