Change Quote by Marianne Williamson

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one…

— Lucy Powell

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion…

— Marianne Williamson

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with…

— Albert Einstein

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the…

— C. S. Lewis

Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

— Michael Lerner

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

— William Bennett

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

— Salman Rushdie

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them…

— Dalai Lama

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up…

— Richard Gere

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely…

— Richard Rohr