Coming together Quote by Miguel McKelvey

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

Religion is always falling apart.

— Alan Watts

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

— George Carlin

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least…

— Mary Douglas

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

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

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

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

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

— Lawrence Wright

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

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

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare…

— Rowan Williams