Become Quote by Gary Hamel

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

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

— Edgar Quinet

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we…

— Tom Robbins

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

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people…

— Daniel Bell

“outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind-dominated religions, although the institutionalized hierarchies felt…

— Eckhart Tolle

“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

— Peter L. Berger

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 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

The institution of religion is important.

— Tomi Lahren

Organized religion is the unholy mutation of faith

— Boaz Zippor

“The administrative and hierarchic aspects seem to be crucial in the evolution of belief systems. The truth is first revealed to all men, but…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón