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I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.


Jewel
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
Mary Douglas
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.


Jesse Ventura
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.
Frank Sinatra
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
Mary Douglas
Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
Gary Johnson
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
Gary Hamel
Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids.
Rhea Perlman
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No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.


James Cash Penney
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
Yann Martel
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.
Seth Grahame-Smith
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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.


Terry Tempest Williams
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.


Thomas a Kempis
I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.
Lou Duva
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
Sean Durkin
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.


Joyce Cary
I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.
Marvin Harris
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
Jewel
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I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
David Price
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I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.


Jane Hamilton
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