Formality Quote by John D. MacDonald

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.”

— Alan McCluskey

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

— William James

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But…

— Kabir Bedi

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

— Andrew Solomon

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“When we are to attend upon God in solemn ordinances it concerns us to sanctify ourselves, and to get ready beforehand.”

— Matthew Henry

“A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.”

— Eric Hoffer

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

— Luke Grimes

“congregation, exhorting, encouraging,”

— Catherine Richmond

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

— Sarah McLachlan