Accepting Quote by Raymond Franz

“God declines to sit atop an organizational flowchart. He is the organization. He is not interested in being president of the board. He is…

— Kyle Idleman

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

— Maimonides

God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

— Dawson Trotman

“Organised religion is a contradiction in terms - it's the fallible meeting the infallible. Any earthly, bureaucratic representation of a higher power will prove…

— Stewart Stafford

Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men,…

— Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man of common…

— Baron d'Holbach

“If God does not exist, are we provided with any values or commands that could legitimise our behaviour.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to…

— Richard Dawkins

“The administrative and hierarchic aspects seem to be crucial in the evolution of belief systems. The truth is first revealed to all men, but…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The men-first hierarchy delivered as advertised. Organizing God is so vulnerable to human corruption, it should be the most terrifying venture on earth to…

— Jen Hatmaker

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The authority of God is unlike what is usually meant by "external authority" ... The authority of God brings perspective, joy and hope.”

— G C Berkouwer