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


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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.


Jesse Ventura
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
Pete Townshend
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.


Epictetus
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
Mary Douglas
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
Laurence Housman
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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My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.


Steve King
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.


Ellen G. White
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
I believe if an individual wants to join organized labor and work under a union contract, they should have the legal right to do so. At the same token, a person who does not want to work under organized labor and wants to work should have the ability to do so without the threat of having to join and having to pay dues to organized labor.
Paul LePage
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
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A puny body weakens the soul.


Paul Cezanne
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
Eldridge Cleaver
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The soul has many motions, body one.


Theodore Roethke
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The face is the soul of the body.


Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.


Ellen G. White
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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.


Albert Einstein
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