Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Organized

I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.
- Toni Collette
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
- Stephen Jay Gould
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
- St. Augustine
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
- Elton John
In fact, I've met countless believers who have said, "The church is an organism, not an organization." Yet as they formed those very words, they continued to be devout members of churches that were organized along the lines of General Motors and Microsoft.
- Frank Viola
I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?
- Ben Carson
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike
Perhaps the True Self--and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)--will always live in the backwaters of any empire and the deep mines of any religion.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Where is the glory of God? Just look around. Everything created by God reflects his glory in some way. We see it everywhere, from the smallest microscopic form of life to the vast Milky Way, from sunsets and stars to storms and seasons. Creation reveals our Creator's glory. In nature we learn that God is powerful, that he enjoys variety, loves beauty, is organized, and is wise and creative. The Bible says, "The heavens declare the glory of God." 1
- Rick Warren
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
- Elbert Hubbard
Anytime evil becomes organized, its ferocity breathes the air of hell. There is nothing that can quench that fury. It cannot be stopped until it has accomplished its purpose. That is why hell is unending. Its nature is to burn on the inside, and no outward consolation or influence can change wickedness that is inflamed by numbers. The
- Ravi Zacharias