Break Quote by Daniel Bell

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

— Marianne Williamson

People are looking for a way in which their spiritual life can be deepened. They are finding it in some of our Catholic parishes…

— Blase J. Cupich

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

— Sean Durkin

Organized religion is the unholy mutation of faith

— Boaz Zippor

Religion is no longer a connection point for most people. Our communities were built on coming together in physical locations once a week or…

— Miguel McKelvey

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

— Joe Lieberman

Religion is always falling apart.

— Alan Watts

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

— Gary Hamel

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for…

— Saul Alinsky

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

— Johnny Hart

“FRACTURED FACTIONS Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots”

— Kamil Ali