Commitment Quote by Mary Douglas

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

— Martin Freeman

The difficulty in living our religion is when we haven't totally made the commitment necessary.

— LaVell Edwards

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

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

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of…

— A. N. Wilson

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

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

I personally feel that religion should be kept private.

— Mahesh Bhatt

Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in…

— Paul Copan

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

— Noam Chomsky

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.

— Rodney Stark