“I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.” — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
The task of organized religion is not to prove that God was in the 1st century, but that he is in the… — S H Miller Copy Share Image
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was… — A. N. Wilson 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'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
“Organized religion lies and tells us that the bridge between ape and man is that of a savior who will do the… — VD Copy Share Image
“Unlike the uneducated Christian followers from centuries ago, the typical Christian today has a particularly high level of suspicion of organized religion,… — Scott S. Haraburda Copy Share Image
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
“I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But… — Lorna Landvik 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
Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Alice in Lapland. Any undue interest in or physical contact with children will set off alarms. If you do not want your… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized… — Richard Rohr 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
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“My honors thesis project was my first interactive exhibit, in which two facing chairs were activated by a motion sensor when the… — Wafaa Bilal 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
“Is that what God does? He helps? Tell me, why didn't God help my innocent friend who died for no reason while… — Elliot Alderson 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
“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My Faith, is unwavering. I believe in God, just not in any organized Religion, for surely, history has shown us, anything Humans… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr 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
“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Say what you want about organized religion, but man, they make cool windows.” — Alan Doyle Copy Share Image
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Organized religion became a projection of man and a representation of his evil. — Rev Richard Skaff Copy Share Image
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.” — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
