Cult Quote by J. Gordon Melton Download Open image “When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group” — J. Gordon Melton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cult Groups Language Religious Use
“By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
The word 'cult' is almost a nice way of saying a lot of people hate you, or have never heard of you. It means… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“People do not knowingly join “cults” that will ultimately destroy and kill them. People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus dinner socials,… — Deborah Layton Copy Share Image
“Today the word "cult" is often used in both a sociological and a theological sense. Sociologically, a cult is a religious or semireligious sect… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive. — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are. — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also -… — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about… — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society. — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system that empathy… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally. — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need… — Jerome Flynn Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Once I knew what I was doing I was there and with it; I had the total knowing. I Googled God and orgasmed At… — Initially NO Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
