Organized religion Quotes

Organized religion is the unholy mutation of faith

— Boaz Zippor

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

— Luke Grimes

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

— Thomas Jefferson

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

— Jesse Ventura

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

— J. K. Rowling

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

— Bernard Katz

Theology is ignorance with wings.

— Sam Harris

“I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title “organized religion.” What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?”

— Roland Merullo

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

— Anne Rice

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

— Dave Davies

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

— Jesse Ventura

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

— Laurens van der Post

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

— Kerry Thornley

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

— Max Lucado

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

— John Shelby Spong

I no longer represent any organized religion.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

I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and…

— Sarah McLachlan

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized…

— Alice Walker

“Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what…

— Diane Chamberlain

“There is a fundamental difference between the financial enterprise and political machinations of an organized religion versus a mass of independent unaffiliated…

— Gregory F. Fegel

I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in…

— Dwight Yoakam

“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult…

— Zeena Schreck

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt…

— Corita Kent

Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,…

— Eckhart Tolle

In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early…

— Billy Graham

“The Biblical account of the original sin is the story of man of faith who realizes suddenly that faith can be utilized…

— Joseph B. Soloveitchik

“Blue believes the harmony to be motivated by self-interest. There is a resurgence of faith these days, a growing belief in organized…

— Nick Sagan

I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join…

— Noam Chomsky

I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Alice in Lapland. Any undue interest in or physical contact with children will set off alarms. If you do not want your…

— Howard Mittelmark

“The Catholic Church wasn't just a part of his parents' live, and his grandparents', it ruled their lives. The priests told them…

— Louise Penny

“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds,…

— John Cleese

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely…

— Eudora Welty

“Cellar Christians!" Foyle exclaimed. He and Robin peered through the window. Thirty worshipers of assorted faiths were celebrating the New Year with…

— Alfred Bester

“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are…

— Thomas Talbott

“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was…

— Lance Armstrong

“This is often the primary difference between him and so many of those of us who follow him. When we encounter the…

— John Pavlovitz

“The fact is that life is like the river: endlessly moving on, ever seeking, exploring, pushing, overflowing its banks, penetrating every crevice…

— J. Krishnamurti

“The Sunday service alone seldom leads people on deeper or even real journeys; we must begin to be honest about this. All…

— Richard Rohr