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
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson 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 had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it… — Amber Heard 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
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
“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
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today,… — Al Jaffee 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
“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
“The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city… — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
“Organized religion is horseshit. Spirituality -- the spirituality that I've come to know and experience -- has nothing to do with religion.… — Dan Fante 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
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
... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
